On March 19, 1865, a line of Union cannons on the Morris Farm played a significant role in blunting the final Confederate attacks on the first day of fighting at Bentonville. Four batteries of four guns each were arrayed on both sides of a ravine north of the Goldsboro Road, and these sixteen guns held commanding angles of fire across the open fields. An additional four-gun battery south of the road was joined by one gun of the 19th Indiana Battery, which had seen dramatic action earlier in the day at Cole’s plantation, where three of its guns were captured during the main Confederate attack. In the most intense artillery barrage of the three-day engagement at Bentonville, Union batteries on the Morris Farm punished Confederate troops with spherical case shot and canister rounds at close range, leaving the attacking force under deadly concentrated fire as smoke settled over the guns and the ground trembled underfoot.