2025:   Special Events / Field Trips

• Raleigh CWRT Field Trip to Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site (Sept. 20^th, 2025)

Raleigh CWRT Field Trip to Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site

Please contact Phil Farrell if you are interested, providing your name, email, and mobile phone number. On Sat., Sept. 20^th, 2025, the tour will begin promptly at 0900 at the Bentonville Battlefield Visitors' Center ( 5466 Harper House Rd, Four Oaks, NC 27524). Please let Phil know if you want to carpool or travel on you own but arrange to arrive on time. There will be a charge of about $20 to cover the lunch.

Trip Leader: Phil Farrell; phill_f27@yahoo.com; (919) 522-1560

• For an American Battlefield Trust battle map of The Battle of Bentonville, click here.

• For an overhead Google Map of The Battle of Bentonville, click here.

• For a Raleigh CWRT-created video on The Battle of Bentonville, click here.

• For a Driving Tour Map, click here.

Itinerary:

Date: Saturday, Sept. 20^th, 2025

0730 - 0745: Depart from Raleigh on your own.

0745 - 0845: Travel to Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site .

0900 - 0930: Tour the visitor center, which features a 15-minute audiovisual program explaining the events leading up to the Battle of Bentonville.

0945 - 1215: Bentonville Battlefield Driving Tour.

1230 - 1345: Lunch at the visitor center pavilion catered from Smithfield Bar-B-Q.

1400 - 1530: Guided tour of the Harper House leaves from the Visitor Center

1530 - 1630: Travel from Four Oaks to Raleigh.