For the campaign of the American Revolutionary War, see Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War.
Campaign of the Carolinas
Part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War
The Burning of Columbia, South Carolina, on February 17, 1865, as depicted in Harper's Weekly
Date
January 1 – April 26, 1865
Location
Carolinas
Result
Union victory:
Unconditional surrender of the Army of the South on April 26, 1865
Effective end of the American Civil War
Territorial changes
Dissolution of the Confederacy and reconstruction of the Southern States
Belligerents
United States (Union)
Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
William T. Sherman
Joseph E. Johnston
Units involved
Army of the Tennessee
Army of the Ohio
Army of Georgia
Army of the South
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Campaign of the Carolinas
Rivers' Bridge
James Island
Aiken
Congaree Creek
Columbia
Wise's Fork
Monroe's Cross-Roads
Averasborough
Bentonville
Morrisville
The Carolinas campaign (January 1 – April 26, 1865), also known as the campaign of the Carolinas, was the final campaign conducted by the Union Army against the Confederate Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.[a] On January 1, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman advanced north from Savannah, Georgia, through the Carolinas, with the intention of linking up with Union forces in Virginia. The campaign culminated in the defeat of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army at the Battle of Bentonville, and its unconditional surrender to Union forces on April 26, 1865. Coming just two weeks after the defeat of Robert E. Lee's army at the Battle of Appomattox Court House, it signaled that the war was effectively over.
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