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Wilderness - The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia
Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The fighting occurred in a wooded area near Locust Grove, Virginia, about 20 miles (32 km) west
of Fredericksburg. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, nearly 29,000 in total, a harbinger of a war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital,
Richmond, Virginia. The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive. (Wikipedia)
Photo U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.- "Battle of the Wilderness--Desperate fight on the Orange C.H. Plank Road, near Todd's Tavern, May 6th, 1864"
.Digital ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g01748 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g01748
Map - Wilderness To Petersburg (May 1864 - April 1865) Pinterest - From americancivilwarmaps.tumblr.com |
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