BATTLE OF MONROE’S CROSSROADS MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Obelisks War Monument
Year Dedicated: 1996
Access: Military Base
Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR
Photograph By: PHOTO COURTESY OF FORT BRAGG
Submitted By: DOCSOUTH.UNC.EDU/COMMLAND/
ON MARCH 15, 1865 CONFEDERATE CAVALRY UNDER LT. GEN. WADE HAMPTON LAUNCHED A SURPRISE ATTACK ON THE CAMP OF UNION CAVALRY UNDER BREVET MAJOR GENERAL HUGH J. KILPATRICK AT CHARLES MONROE FARM. WHILE THE CONFEDERATES RAIDED THE CAMP, THE UNION SOLDIERS LAUNCHED A SUCCESSFUL COUNTER ATTACK. THE BATTLE ENDED INCONCLUSIVELY, BUT WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST CAVALRY BATTLES OF THE WAR. THIS MEMORIAL IS ONE OF THE FEW IN NORTH CAROLINA DEDICATED TO BOTH THE CONFEDERATE AND UNION FORCES.
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