Carolina Slide Show
Click any image below to begin a slide show of images from The Carolinas Campaign:
- The Shelton Church ruins in Yemassee, South Carolina was burned by British troops in 1779 and rebuilt only to be burned by Sherman’s troops in 1865.
- Kris Gunvalsen takes the role of WT Sherman at the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bentonville, NC 2015
- Spanish moss laden Live Oaks trees line the drive to the Tomotley Plantation in Beaufort County, South Carolina 2015
- Reenactors as “Contraband” take the impression of liberated slaves that joined Sherman’s march through the Carolinas in Bentonville, NC 2015
- Spanish moss laden Live Oaks trees line the drive to the Tomotley Plantation in Beaufort County, South Carolina 2015
- The earthen walls of Fort Fisher in Wilmington, NC
- Union reenactors rest after a march in Bentonville, NC
- Fire near Charleston, SC. Sherman’s troops would leave a smoky trail through the Carolinas in 1865.
- Confederate reenactors prepare to attack in Bentonville, NC 2015
- Drayton Hall was the only plantation along the Ashley River to survive the burning in 1865
- Union troops had to wade through these swamps while under fire during the Battle of River’s Bridge
- Confederate earthworks at River’s bridge Battlefield
- Union reenactors open fire at Bentonville, NC
- Cypress swamps at Congaree National Park
- Confederate reenactors commemorate their last payday as soldiers for the Confederacy
- Slave cabins at Magnolia Plantation
- Union reenactors at Bentonville, North Carolina
- The Stars and Bars flies over a Confederate memorial at the South Carolina State House.
- Bridge over the Congaree River at Columbia South Carolina 2015
- Union reenactors defend against Confederate attacks at Bentonville
- The ruins of Confederate Wade Hampton’s home in Columbia, SC
- 19th century citizens of Bentonville
- Ruins of Saluda Mill burned by Sherman’s troops in their occupation of Columbia
- Cape Fear River at Fayetteville, NC. Sherman met a Union steamboat here and received the news about the Fall of Wilmington
- Union reenactors defend against Confederate attacks in Bentonville
- Stockade around Fort Fisher near Wilmington, SC 2015
- Marsh and the Cape Fear River at Fort Fisher
- in 1865 the Union Navy filled the sea here opposite Fort Fisher
- Confederate reenactors rally in an attack on their entrenched Union counterparts in Bentonville, NC
- Surrounded by sea and marsh Fort Fisher at Wilmington, NC
- Wounded and exhausted reenactors at Bentonville, NC
- The Battlefield at Averasboro
- Union reenactors rest on the Battlefield at Bentonville, NC
- Ravine on the Battlefield at Averasboro stopped a Union flank attack
- Confederates engage Sherman’s troops at Bentonville 2015
- Salkehatchie Swamps at River’s Bridge
- Confederate earthworks at River’s Bridge Battlefield
- Union reenactors take the impression of Sherman’s western army at Bentonville, North Carolina 2015
- Confederates eventually retreated across Mill Creek after the Battle of Bentonville.
- Live Oak trees line a plantation drive in South Carolina
- Picnic grounds at Magnolia Plantation
- Swamps at Magnolia Plantation
- Gardens at Magnolia Plantation, Charleston, SC 2015
- In 1864-65 City Point, Virginia was the largest military depot in the world
- Grant’s HQ at City Point, Virginia 2015