Bentonville, N.C. will be the next stop on the Foundation of Wayne Community College’s series of lectures on American Civil War battles.
Dean Harry, the president of the Friends of Bentonville Battlefield, will present on the March 1865 battle on Tuesday, March 17.
The Battle of Bentonville was the last full-scale action of the Civil War in which a Confederate army was able to mount a tactical offensive. It was the only substantial effort to rout Gen. William T. Sherman’s Union army as it marched through the state.
Harry, a founding member of the Bentonville organization, is also a certified Bentonville battlefield guide, a licensed battlefield guide at Gettysburg, PA, and a re-enactor with Company D of the 27th North Carolina Infantry.
The last lecture in the series will be “Sherman’s Occupation of Goldsborough, N.C.” on April 21.
All are set for 7 p.m. and will be held in Moffatt Auditorium. They are free and open to the public with no reservations or registrations required.
For more information, contact the Foundation at (919) 739-7007 or awnorthington@waynecc.edu.
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The Foundation of Wayne Community College is a non-profit organization that works to broaden the base of community support for educational opportunities at the college. In addition to offering cultural activities such as those in its Arts and Humanities Program, the Foundation assists students, providing 368 scholarships worth more than $243,000 in the 2013-14 academic year, and funds innovative campus projects and employee recognition opportunities.
Wayne Community College is a public, learning-centered institution with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, it serves 14,500 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 90 college credit programs.
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