Battle of the Wilderness
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battle-of-the-wilderness-176-18218393
title:
Battle of the Wilderness
text:
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 ar
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encyclopedia
description:
Major battle of the American Civil War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Wilderness
date created:
2002-04-12T14:00:40Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T23:31:38Z
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