Donnie Taylor, site manager for the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site, takes viewers on a tour of the Harper House (ca. 1855), which was used during the battle as a hospital. The house is furnished as a Civil War field hospital.
The Battle of Bentonville, fought March 19-21, 1865, was the last full-scale action of the Civil War in which a Confederate army was able to mount a tactical offensive. This major battle, the largest ever fought in North Carolina, was the only significant attempt to defeat the large Union army of Gen. William T. Sherman during its march through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865.