Talk:Battle of Bentonville

Disposition of Sherman's Army
My understanding of the situation was that Johnston decided to attack only one of Sherman's three columns marching north, the one farthest west. Does anyone know if this is the case?L Hamm 03:43, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You're correct. Johnson's plan was to strike the Army of Georgia (under Henry W. Slocum) at Bentonville, hoping to destroy it before Sherman could bring reinforcements to the scene. If you are interested in participating in the editing process, the Carolinas campaign needs a lot of work and is way back on my to-do list. Hal Jespersen 15:25, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Reference improvement / possible plagiarism
Very similar phrasing in article vs. in text of NHL nomination from 1996 for the site, available as link in new Bentonville Battlefield article. Or, the plagiarizer could have copied from a source that the NHL nomination uses. I tagged article with "refimprove", as I don't know of a more severe tag to use. I downrate article to Stub for possible/probable plagiarism and general lack of sources. doncram (talk) 00:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I scanned around for a while and couldn't see obvious copying. Could you cite some specific passages? Is the URL of the external link correct? Hal Jespersen (talk) 01:55, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

"Before Johnston"
This sentence made me do a double take: "The next day, the other Federal flank arrived and for the next two days, the armies skirmished with each other before Johnston's army."

Before Johnston's army what? Or were there three armies (so two of them could skirmish in front of Johnston's one)?

Dredging through the history reveals that a revision as of 23:46, 12 December 2011 made by a Gorman McPhail changed the following:

The next day, the other Federal wing arrived and for the next two days, the armies skirmished with each other before Johnston retreated. --> The next day, the other Federal flank arrived and for the next two days, the armies skirmished with each other before Johnston's army.

Was this an innocent mistake? Why otherwise replace "retreated" with "army"? Should we change it to end with "... before Johnston's army retreated"? What was wrong with saying Johnston retreated - when a commander is said to retreat, his forces is understood to have retreated with him. CapnZapp (talk) 09:06, 27 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Fixed with a more general rewrite. Hal Jespersen (talk) 18:25, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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