Bentonville PART 1 Setting the Scene and The Cole Plantation: North Carolina Video Tour!

We pick the story up where we left off in Averasboro at the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site with special guests Derrick Brown and Colby Stevens. Stay tuned until the end for an impromptu stop at the Cole Plantation.
This video is part of our Petersburg and North Carolina Battlefield Tour series. Be sure to check out all of the other videos here: • Petersburg and North C...

[@steveshipkie1624]

Thank goodness I found this channel, I have learned so much about the civil war and look forward to seeing what’s next

[@chrislackey2170]

my hometown i cant believe im just now finding this video

[@chrismandalor1293]

Bro same

[@michelehumphrey852]

Loving these videos. Feels like I’m there with you.

[@tommyanderson-filmmaker3976]

I have been waiting for this one and I am not disappointed. I was there in 2009 researching my book Two Million Steps. My Great Great Great Grandfather fought there with the Twenty Fifth Wisconsin. Great job.

[@tommyanderson-filmmaker3976]

He was in Company A for a little over a year. Yes he did survive the war.

[@travisbayles870]

Salute from Alabama

[@staciejustis2378]

Garry Adelman is just awesome!! His passion for history is infectious and shows all over his face.

[@toddchaddon4249]

I was thrilled to see this! I participated in a reenactment there is 1984. We camped right there in front of the plantation house. What memories!! I don't exactly remember the visitor center, so I wonder if that was built after 1984...or my memory is just that bad! Thank you to everyone who made that video.

[@dianenorkus9906]

I reenacted with 17 New York Veterans Volunteers at 150th anniversary, John Norkus

[@forwheelinallday]

My 2 great- great uncles, Charles and Frederick Hartwick, were there with Co. F of the 52nd Illinois Volunteers Infantry. They both survived the War.

[@travisbayles870]

Salute from Alabama to both of your ancestors

[@clericus9]

This series is so good! Thank you! I visited Bentonville in 1989. The Harper House was memorable, but at that time there was not enough in terms or "informational infrastructure" to make heads or tails of how that battle transpired.

[@travisbayles870]

My great great grandfather and my great great great uncle both of the 32nd Tennessee Infantry CSA fought at Bentonville

[@travisbayles870]

My Great Great grandfather Private William Garner of the 32nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment part of Stewart's division of Hardee's Corps fought at Bentonville

[@kinglord7707]

Fun Fact: Nat King Cole anestory is orginally from the Cole plantation

[@richardglady3009]

Great video. Great vistas...thanks for panning around. It is so interesting, for me as a city boy, to see these battlefields...a combination of open areas and wood lots. I think about Duncan field at Shiloh. Thanks to all for this preservation and tour.

[@drew2276]

I’ve been to bentonville many times. The ghost hunting is spectacular!

[@paparude7724]

My 5 year old son saw a “sad man with a red shirt and blue pants standing by a tree” last year. I believe him for I’ve experienced many things out there camping since I was a kid camping with my dad or with the reenactment group and just random daytime strolls through the area.

[@needmorecowbell6460]

Ive reenacted there before back in 2009. And one thing that didn’t make sense to me is that this is a state park and the difference between state parks and federal parks when it comes to reenacting is….you can reenact on the actual battlefield itself on a state park but you can’t on a federal park.

[@brandonneely9982]

I was in Echo Company 1/19 Infantry Regiment in boot camp at Fort Benning, GA. Our name was "The Rock of Chica Mogwa". That was amazing to learn our unit had fought in The War of Northern Aggression, OR The Civil War.

[@thomaslance5428]

Chickamauga.

[@marcuscarrozza732]

I am from philadelphia pa, some of my family down there are the Hardee' , and the Buck's. One of my great uncles died in one of those battles. Thanks for the history!

[@travisbayles870]

Salute from Alabama

[@2DSTORMS]

You hear the birds and look at the home and realize one day in 1865, before the battle it was probably sunny with birds singing just like that. Kind of eerie

[@MS-hl8fe]

My greatx3 uncle John W Bogardus, 21st MI infantry regiment was killed at Bentonville. His body was interred in a mass grave, later exhumed. We believe that he could be one of the unknowns buried in Raleigh, NC. His mother received a $13 a month pension for 2yrs. John had joined the 21st when it was in Tennessee and had only been in the army less than a year when he was killed. We have a letter from a friend who saw John die, he was struck in the head by a bullet and was killed instantly.

[@travisbayles870]

Salute from Alabama

[@MS-hl8fe]

Found out that Sherman abandoned the dead and wounded to chase after Johnston. So instead of being buried next to his kin, my relative was unceremoniously pushed into a mass grave, covered in lime and was forgotten. He is an unknown in the Raleigh city cemetery. So needless to say Sherman is my least favorite.

[@jankovarik9714]

My great-great grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Iler [EYE-ler] (Ohio Vols) fought on this field!

[@travisbayles870]

Salute from Alabama to your ancestor

[@needmorecowbell6460]

Thats a witness tree behind the house and also you didn’t mention all the amputated limbs where tossed out that parlor window and it piled up to the bottom of the window about 6 ft high. All the limbs are buried on property somewhere

[@trudyharper9222]

Magnificent!!!

[@mitchw4802]

My great great great uncle was in the 1st Division, 2nd Brigade of the XX Corps. 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment.

[@MrStrafemoore]

I am currently restoring the windows on The Harper House. It's going well, and for their age, most of them are in excellent condition.

[@michaelwiggins1972]

Bentonville is just a few minutes from my home and they have done so much to make it a awesome place to visit. plenty of walking trails with original earthworks still in place. Thanks to the Trust & staff at Bentonville for all the help in preserving this battlefield that I love so much.

[@miketriz3100]

Amazing preservation

[@Turnagater]

My family lives in Goldsboro. Next visit, I'm going here

[@marvthedog1972]

I have a 2 great uncle that was wounded in Bentonville from 89th Ohio, he died a couple weeks later in Raleigh and is buried in an unknown grave in the Raleigh national cemetery.

[@earlyriser8998]

good start to the complex battle

[@americancivilwarukhistory9769]

You guys are going to cost me a fortune in travelling

[@jankovarik9714]

Is there a record of who was treated in the field hospital? My sister-in-law's great-great-grandfather, Abner Smith (Conn Vols), was wounded here, had his lower leg amputated, subsequently died, and is buried in a Bentonville cemetery. It would be interesting to learn whether he was treated in this field hospital.

[@outdoorlife5396]

A few years ago, they were broken into. Some of the artifacts were taken. Including rifles and other things. They found them under someone's house. I hope they were not to damaged.

[@rafaellemus5600]

Does anybody else notice the door open on its own about 20 seconds in??

[@truthreigns3465]

Haha yep I saw that. I’ve o my had one major ghost experience and it was on the Petersburg battlefield.

[@garycousino4016]

Whoaa! Good observation

[@MrDrogers6509]

Thanks so much for doing these series, I am enjoying them greatly. I hope to visit the battle field in the fall of 2021. You talked about a four mile walking trail, is the trail in a lot of sun? What type of surface is the trail? How long does it take for the average person to walk the trail? Thanks gain David Rogers

[@stevenforest]

I was there in 2017. I walked in the woods behind the cannon, very surreal. The Confederate graves, I still think what those lads went through that day....what other battles has they survived before this one.

[@russelllane7551]

My GG Grandfather John A.P. Lane fought here with the 17th NC.

[@aswaltan8962]

I'm watching

[@thomasbailey9820]

That home looks like the Belmont plantation home at NC Wesleyan College.

[@TheLastRoman0000]

I am a historian. I recently moved to Goldsboro. Is there any way to get involved with your group?

[@Folap]

Just curious, is there a reason these latest videos always seem so rushed with everyone having to speak so quickly?

[@the_peacetime_volunteer]

My 4th Great Grandfather died in that there hospital… Noble Jackson Brown

[@themanonmars]

Was he related to any perrys..

[@ekimp252]

Back in the '70s, a friend of my older brother's took a metal detector to Bentonville and gave me a half of dozen or so of the bullets he found. Unfortunately, I lost them over the years.

[@mykofreder1682]

I wonder where Johnson got his troops, the fighting general Hood took his Army in Atlanta and decimated it in Tennessee 3 months earlier at Franklin and Nashville. I suspect Hood's remaining 5-10000 troops were more likely to head home than head cross country to confront Sherman or Grant. I wonder if they were the Civil War equivalent of Hitler's Volksgrenadier, which would be pretty bad considering a green trooper at a place like Shilo probably had worse training than a Volksgrenadier.

[@fateagle4life]

I wonder how those troops felt to see Bragg again. They must have wanted to really get their hands on him. Between Bragg, Hood, amd Johnston they never had a good army commander to lead them. They had great division commamders, but they can only do so much when their bosses are morons.

[@T555BIRD]

@@fateagle4life Actually Johnston was a fairly decent commander. At least he didn't get his troops killed unnecessarily.

[@fateagle4life]

@@T555BIRD He was known to run from a fight or 2. Ask Vicksburg, all those troops he gathered in Jackson and he wouldn't help old Pemberton. It took Lee to fix his mess in the peninsula. Johnston ran from more fights than he actually helped in.

[@thomaslance5428]

@@fateagle4life A smart commander knows when to retire, shortening his own lines and lengthening the enemy's. Pemberton was the fool for bottling up 30 thousand. And Davis was the fool for handing over The Army of Tennessee to a limbless madman who fed it into a meat grinder.

[@thomaslance5428]

It's easy when you have a book about the campaign lol. Like I do.

[@LeeHoFooks]

Gary been slamming red bulls again.

[@themanonmars]

I am related to bertha cole .

[@dalegirard9740]

Often wonder how they know how battles were fought who did this and that

[@Turnagater]

Dispatches, After Action Reports and eyewitness accounts

[@scottfleming2166]

Was Sam Watkins in that battle ?

[@trh55]

I don't recall reading that in his book.

[@timothyparrish3849]

what bout western North Carolina with the Yankee Stone Man raiders of the U.S. Army

[@timmayner6460]

if you tie his hands can he talk?