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At this spot and in the surrounding vicinity, the Battle of Bentonville was fought on March 19, 1865. A Confederate dead monument was erected on October 10, 1894, under the auspices of the Goldsboro Rifles, in memory of the Confederate dead buried here. Twenty-three of those buried here had their last hours soothed by the loving care of John Harper and his wife Amy A. Harper. The burial place includes named soldiers from units in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, and Tennessee, and about 360 unknown Confederate dead are buried here.
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