Slocum's troops had crossed the Cape Fear River at Fayetteville and were marching up the Raleigh plank road. Near Averasborough, they encountered Hardee's corps. On the morning of March 16, troops of the Union XX Corps under Maj. Gen. Alpheus S. Williams were driven back by a Confederate assault. When reinforcements arrived, the Union forces counterattacked and drove back two lines of Confederates, but were stopped by a third line. By this time, units from Maj. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis's XIV Corps began to arrive on the field. Outnumbered and in danger of being flanked, Hardee's troops withdrew.
Map from The Record of the Fifty-Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry (1904)
Casualties
The Confederates had not held up the Union Army as long as they had hoped. Each side suffered about 700 casualties during the battle.
References
^Survey and Planning Unit Staff (May 1972). "Oak Grove"(PDF). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
^Survey and Planning Unit Staff (April 1972). "Lebanon"(PDF). National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
^Elliot, Jane Evans (1908). Diary of Mrs. Jane Evans Elliot, 1837–1882. Edwards & Broughton Print Company.
Davis, Daniel T., and Phillip S. Greenwalt. Calamity in Carolina: The Battles of Averasboro and Bentonville, March 1865. Emerging Civil War Series. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2015. ISBN978-1-61121-245-7.
Smith, Mark A., and Wade Sokolosky. No Such Army Since the Days of Julius Caesar: Sherman's Carolinas Campaign from Fayetteville to Averasboro, March 1865, rev. ed. El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2017. ISBN978-1-61121-286-0. First published 2006 by Ironclad Publishing.
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