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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.
May 5, 2011 · The bloody Battle of the Wilderness, in which no side could claim victory, marked the first stage of a major Union offensive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, ordered by the newly named Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1864.
Nov 6, 2009 · Grant now ordered around 115,000 soldiers of the Army of the Potomac, led by George Meade, to cross the Rapidan on May 4 and march through an...
Battle of the Wilderness, battle in the American Civil War fought in northern Virginia on May 5–7, 1864, the first battle of Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s "Overland Campaign," a relentless drive to defeat once and for all Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and capture the South’s capital at Richmond, Virginia ...
Battle of the Wilderness. May 5-6, 1864. The Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Orange Counties, Va. Chris Heisey. BY NOAH ANDRE TRUDEAU. The great spring campaign of 1864 was about to get underway. For weeks Confederate General Robert E. Lee had watched the Union forces camped to the north of the Rapidan River grow in size and confidence.
The American Battlefield Trust’s Map of the May 6, 1864 action near the Orange Turnpike in the battle of the Wilderness, the opening battle of Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
Mar 17, 2024 · The Wilderness was a tangled area of dense forest and undergrowth that had hampered the maneuverability of federal forces during a previous Union defeat at the Battle of Chancellorsville (April 30-May 6, 1863).
