 Troops also played a major role for the Union, with the 3rd North Carolina Cavalry taking part in the Battle of Bull's Gap, Battle of Red Banks, and Stoneman's 1864 and 1865 raids in western North Carolina, southwest Virginia, and eastern Tennessee.The Department of North Carolina, established in 1862, seized Wilmington in 1865, then the state's largest city.The North Carolina-based XVIII Corps was also among the largest in the Union Army.