Civil war battles in North Carolina?

Answer 1

• Battle of Albemarle Sound
• Battle of Averasborough
• Battle of Bentonville
• Battle of Fort Anderson
• Battle of Fort Fisher I
• Battle of Fort Fisher II
• Siege of Fort Macon
• Battle of Goldsboro Bridge
• Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries
• Battle of Kinston
• Battle of Monroe's Cross Roads
• Battle of Morrisville
• Battle of New Bern
• Battle of Plymouth
• Battle of Roanoke Island
• Battle of South Mills
• Battle of Tranter's Creek
• Battle of Washington
• Battle of White Hall
• Battle of Wilmington
• Battle of Wyse Fork

Answer 2

The biggest battles which took place in NC were in the eastern half of the state. In February 1862 the Yankees followed up capturing Ocracoke Inlet with taking Roanoke Island, and going on to capture towns on the mainland, such as Plymouth and New Bern. The Rebels attempted to recapture Plymouth but failed in 1863. In December 1864 there was an unsuccessful Yankee attempt to capture Fort Fisher, on the Cape Fear River below Wilmington. By that time Wilmington was the last Confederate port open to blockade runners,and the Fort guarded the mouth of the River. It was the largest earthwork fort in the world at the time. In January 1865 the Yankees returned, and in a bloody attack took the Fort and shut down Wilmington as a port.

The CSS Albermarle,an ironclad warship with a resemblance to the CSS Virginia ("The Merrimac) was built in a makeshift, primitive shipyard established in a cornfield near Scotland Neck, on the Roanoke River. Her purpose was to be to clear North Carolina's coastal sounds of Yankee warships. Completed in 1864 she fought several battles with Union ships on the Roanoke River and around Plymouth. She was eventually sunk while tied up at her dock in a very daring raid by "Lincoln's Commando", US Navy Lieutenant William B. Cushing, in one of the outstanding exploits of the war.

The Army of Tennessee, having lost Tennessee, then Georgia, was retreating northward before Sherman in the last months of the war. Its last two battles were fought in NC, at Averasboro and Bentonville, before surrendering near Durham two weeks after Lee had given up.

"Stoneman's Raid" was a Yankee cavalry expedition that roamed freely in the western half of the state in the last couple of months.

The mountains were full of draft dodgers, escaped Yankee prisoners of war, Confederate deserters, and plain outlaws, all preying on the people for something to eat and whatever else they could steal. After the Yankees captured east Tennessee in the latter half of 1863 there were occasional expeditions through the mountains to raid in the west.