 In the garrison communities of the coast and in the counties where the U.S. Army made sporadic incursions in northeastern region of the state in particular, Confederate control almost completely collapsed before 1865. Confederate North Carolina and the Confederacy more generally did not fall at one place in April or May 1865. It collapsed in many different locations beginning with the U.S. Army incursions but spreading with the deep stabilization and chaos wrought by guerrilla war,