Carolina Quotes Supply Lines

Sherman's armies resupply at Goldsboro

March 23, 1865, Goldsboro, North Carolina.

Date
March 23, 1865
Where
Goldsboro, North Carolina
What happened
Rebuilt
Event
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Union troops repaired the railroads from New Bern and Wilmington, and supplies from the coast reached the combined armies at the Goldsboro junction. With the new supply line, Union generals ended the open foraging used since Georgia.

The line

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Sources

  1. Report of Lieutenant-General U.S. Grant, 1864-65 (HistoryOfWar.org)
  2. Goldsboro: Union Accounts (Civil War in North Carolina exhibit, NC State University)
  3. Grant, Sherman Visit New Bern (New Bern Magazine)
  4. Railroads in North Carolina, Part III (NCpedia)