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1,690 captured/missing. 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 5–7, 1864
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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 · The Battle of the Wilderness in 1864 brought heavy losses to the Union army but failed to halt their advance to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
Apr 30, 2024 · 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 Overland Campaign, also known as Grant's Overland Campaign and the Wilderness Campaign, was a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June 1864, towards the end of the American Civil War. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, general-in-chief of all Union armies, directed the actions of the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George...
National Park Historian Don Pfanz discusses the historical importance of the Civil War Battle of the Wilderness (May 5-6. 1864) and the state of the battlefield today.
