Guilford Courthouse NMP Goldsboro, North Carolina

The Guilford Courthouse National Military Park commemorates the Revolutionary War Battle of Guilford Court House, fought on March 15, 1781. The losses by the British were about one quarter their soldiers. The British were commanded by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis who ultimately was the general that surrendered at Yorktown seven months later to General George Washington and Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau. The battlefield was designated for preservation by a local resident, David Schenck, in 1886. The battlefield was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service August 10, 1933. It is a very different type of battlefield from what we are accustomed to in Virginia and Maryland. This was all fought in the woods which made for more difficult fighting conditions.