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Numerous locations claim to be the site of the Last Battle of the Civil War. Bentonville, North Carolina is said to be the site of the last major battle of Civil War, where the Confederacy was able to mount a tactical offensive. Fort Blakeley in Alabama calls itself the location of the last combined-force battle of the War.
The battle of Shiloh, which occurred from April 6 to 7, 1862 in Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, was the bloodiest Civil War battle in Civil War history or U.S. history up to that point. It played a relatively important role in Union progress in the western theater and the Union victory gave Tennessee to the North.