Jefferson Davis and his Confederate government-in-exile reached South Carolina, but Federal patrols were closing in on them.
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The Confederate Government in Exile
April 22, 1865 – President Jefferson Davis held a cabinet meeting in Charlotte and weighed the Confederacy’s rapidly dwindling options. Davis and what was left
The Battle of Bentonville: Day Two
March 20, 1865 – The fight that began yesterday in North Carolina ended as Major General William T. Sherman scrambled to unite his Federal army
The Battle of Bentonville
March 19, 1865 – General Joseph E. Johnston’s makeshift Confederate army moved to crush the left wing of Major General William T. Sherman’s Federal army
Confederates Make a Stand at Bentonville
March 18, 1865 – General Joseph E. Johnston concentrated all the Confederates he could muster near Bentonville, North Carolina, to oppose the advancing left wing
The Fall of Fayetteville
March 11, 1865 – The left wing of Major General William T. Sherman’s Federal armies captured Fayetteville, a key city on the Cape Fear River