Burnside captures New Bern
March 14, 1862, New Bern, North Carolina.
- Date
- March 14, 1862
- Where
- New Bern, North Carolina
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 25 of 174
Burnside's Coast Division broke the Confederate line below New Bern and held the town for the rest of the war. The capture put the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad between the coast and the interior in Union hands as far as New Bern.
The line
Nearby
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- 30 miBeaufortUnion · Port, Beaufort, North Carolina
- 31 miFort MaconUnion · Site, Atlantic Beach (Bogue Banks), North Carolina
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