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Site Name Averasboro Battlefield Street Address P.O. Box 1811 City / State / Zip Dunn NC, 28335 Phone number 910-891-5019 Web Page www.averasboro.com   Admission Fee Free. Hours Battlefield site, daily from dawn to dusk; museum, Tues.-Sat. 10:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M., Sun. 1:00 P.M.-4:00 P.M. Visitor services Information, handicapped access, gift shop, public rest rooms, museum. Regular Events March, annual anniversary reenactment or living history and periodic demonstrations; call for more information.     Directions From I-95 take exit 71. Continue west for 3 miles to intersection with North Carolina Highway 82. Take Highway 82 east for 2 miles. The Averasboro Battlefield Museum is on the right, just past the Lebanon Plantation House.
Site Description
This is the site of the 1865 Battle of Averasboro, where the outnumbered and outgunned Confederates of General Hardee's corps delayed the left wing of Gen. W.T. Sherman's army advance north from Fayetteville. The Battle of Averasboro was fought on the 8,000-acre Smithville Plantation along the Cape Fear River, March 15-16, 1865. The delay enabled the relocation of additional Confederates for Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's final offensive of the war at the Battle of Bentonville, fought 25 miles to the north on March 19-21, 1865.

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