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|   Burying the Dead-The Battle of the Wilderness - Lake Wilderness VA
in U.S. Civil War Sites At battle's end, more than 2,000 Union dead lay scattered through the Wilderness. The first major effort to bury the dead came more than a year later, when a Union regiment received orders to proceed to the Wilderness and inter those Union soldiers. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW120.4 km | Flank Attack! The Battle of the Wilderness - Lake Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites These woods saw some of the heaviest fighting of the Battle of the Wilderness. On May 5, then again on May 6, 1864 ragged Union and Confederate battle lines surged back and forth on both sides of the Orange Plank Road. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW120.4 km | Longstreet Felled-The Battle of the Wilderness - Lake Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites As Longstreet galloped down the road at the head of his victorious troops – near this spot – he inadvertently rode between two Confederate lines maneuvering in the dense roadside foliage. One of them fired a volley. A bullet struck Longstreet. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW120.4 km | Brock Road/Plank Road Intersection - Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites One of the most horrific battles of the Civil War took place in the overgrown woods at this intersection of the Wilderness. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 05/11/2010 last visited: 03/27/2015 |
 view galleryNW120.4 km | Tapp Field - Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee faced crisis in the Wilderness when Union troops swept across this field and his reinforcements had not arrived. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 04/24/2010 last visited: 05/25/2010 |
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| Stafford Civil War Park - Stafford, Virginia in U.S. Civil War Sites Located east of Route 1 at the end of Dilger Road. posted by:  flyingmoose location: Virginia date approved: 04/12/2023 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW120.9 km | Jackson's Flank Attack - Chancellorsville VA in U.S. Civil War Sites On this quiet meadow, Stonewall Jackson led one of most famous and successful Confederate attacks during the Civil War. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 04/02/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW121.2 km | Chewning Farm - Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Chewning Farm was a strategic point on the Wilderness battlefield. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 04/19/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW121.3 km | Wilderness Campaign - Spotsylvania VA in U.S. Civil War Sites May 5-6, 1864. The bluecoats of Crawford's Division emerged into the sunlight of this clearing, the Chewning Farm, on May 5 in a predetermined move toward Parker's Store on the Orange Plank Road. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW122.5 km | Wilderness Campaign - Spotsylvania VA in U.S. Civil War Sites May 5, 1864. In the early afternoon, Wadsworth's Division of Warren's Corps hit the right flank of Rodes' Confederate Division near this point. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW123 km | Higgerson Farm - Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Permelia Higgerson watched and taunted Union troops as they trampled through her property on the Wilderness battlefield. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 04/17/2010 last visited: 05/26/2014 |
 view galleryNW123.1 km | Ellwood in U.S. Civil War Sites The house and outbuildings were used as a field hospital by the Confederates during the Battle of Chancellorsville. In the family cemetery lies the arm of Stonewall Jackson. The house was later used as a Union headquarters. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 07/16/2007 last visited: 04/06/2013 |
 view galleryNW123.6 km | Grant's Headquarters - Wilderness VA in U.S. Civil War Sites When Union Gen. U. S. Grant came to Virginia, he set up his command post near the Wilderness battlefield. posted by: La de Boheme location: Virginia date approved: 05/11/2010 last visited: 02/13/2016 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | The Confederate Line-The Battle of the Wilderness - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Ewell made contact with the Union army here at Saunders Field. Deploying in line of battle across the turnpike, the Confederates began to entrench using knives, bayonets, shovels made from canteen halves, or whatever other tools they could find. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | “A Wild, Wicked Roar” The Battle of the Wilderness - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The arrival of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell’s Second Corps here along the Orange Turnpike on the morning of May 5 challenged the Union march through the Wilderness. The Federals responded with a massive attack. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/13/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | Saunders Field-Battle of the Wilderness - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Saunders Field, which surrounds you, was an abandoned corn patch in 1864. With the arrival of the armies on May 5, it would become a brutal smoking killing field. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | Battle of the Wilderness - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Here May 5, 6, 1864, 70,000 Confederates under Lee defeated 120,000 Federals under Grant. Confederate loss 11,500. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | The Fighting Ends in Stalemate Wilderness Exhibit Shelter - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Stalemate-Two days of bitter fighting had left the bleak Wilderness landscape charred and smoking from fire. Corpses littered the contested ground, now scarred by miles of earth-and-log entrenchments. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | Struggle on the Orange Plank Road-Wilderness Exhibit Shelter - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Crises followed one after another on May 5. No sooner had Grant and Meade learned about Ewell's approach on the Orange Turnpike than they discovered General A.P. Hill's corps moving up the Orange Plank road. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | Battle of the Wilderness-Wilderness Exhibit Shelter - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Army of the Potomac-Throughout the winter of 1863-1864, the armies rested and refitted on opposite sides of the Rapidan River. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | Clash on the Orange Turnpike Wilderness Exhibit Shelter - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Battle of the Wilderness-On May 5, 1864, Lee moved swiftly eastward through Orange County and struck the Federals along two roads - the Orange Plank Road and the Orange Turnpike. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | The Wilderness Dark-Close Wood - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The Wilderness of today looks little like the tangled landscape soldiers found here in 1864. For decades before the war, loggers had cut and recut these forests to fuel nearby iron furnaces. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | Collision of Giants Wilderness Exhibit Shelter - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites Collision of Giants-By 1864 the war had become not just a clash of armies, but of ideas. To be resolved on the fields of Virginia and Georgia that year was not only the fate of the Union, but also the fate of Southern society. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | The Battle of the Wilderness - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites The armies of Lee and Grant collided here in the first clash between the two leaders. In 1864, Lee stood as perhaps the last and only hope for a struggling Confederacy. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
 view galleryNW124.1 km | Gordon Flank Attack Trail-The Battle of the Wilderness - Locust Grove VA in U.S. Civil War Sites In this field and its surrounding woods fell nearly one-third of the men killed or wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Virginia date approved: 09/12/2020 last visited: 10/02/2021 |
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