It was the last major engagement of the Civil War—Johnston surrendered his remaining troops about a month later—and the largest fought on North Carolina ... in Johnston County are always ...

About 140 acres in Johnston County has been sold to a nonprofit focused on preserving historical sites. Sorry, developers. This Cary CEO just grabbed 270 acres in ...

Johnston County, or JoCo to us locals, is one of the biggest counties in North Carolina. It’s made up of eleven towns, and is known for being the site of the last major battle of the Civil War ...

For the hardcore Civil ... War," by editor and cartographer Mark A. Moore, offers nearly 100 maps, in large-scale format and in great detail, almost all the military engagements in North Carolina ...

Two Civil War battlefields in North Carolina will add more than 50 acres ... Bentonville Battlefield is 25 miles away in Johnston County. They were the sites of significant back-to-back battles ...

For a long time, the only way to experience Bentonville, site of the largest Civil War battle in North Carolina ... trail is off-road in southern Johnston County or anywhere in neighboring ...

During a single fortnight in 1865, Union and Confederate armies in eastern North Carolina ... a Civil War field hospital, treating more than 500 wounded soldiers. Plan your trip to Johnston County ...

Timothy Smith, an award-winning author of the Civil War in the West, offers us this look at the life and wars of Albert Sidney Johnston, the first Confederate commander in the theater, whom he ...

RALEIGH – The American Civil Liberties Union ... representatives from other North Carolina civil rights organizations, announced that they were deeply alarmed by racially inflammatory comments ...

Joseph E. Johnston during this month’s gathering of the Civil War Round Table of Cobb County at the Marietta Conference Center.

Barry Brown remembers growing up in southeast Cobb County when fortifications from a long-ago war extended six miles along the north bank of the Chattahoochee River. A series of Civil War forts or ...