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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.
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.
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.
The Battle of the Wilderness took place over two days in May 1864. After US forces held the two intersections around which the fighting took place, they continued south, only to re-engage Confederate forces at Spotsylvania Court House.
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.
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 ...
Near dawn on May 4,1864, the leading division of the Army of the Potomac reached Germanna Ford, 18 miles west of Fredericksburg. The spring campaign was under way and it superficially mirrored the strategic situation prior to the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
Fought between May 5 and 7, 1864, the Battle of the Wilderness was the first major battle in Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign.
The Battle of The Wilderness. In early May, 1864, the Army of the Potomac and independent IX Corps, now both under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and numbering about 120,000 men, left their winter camps in Culpeper County and marched south toward the Rapidan River fords.
On 5 May, Lee surprised Grant in the Wilderness and fought him to impasse in a bloody two‐day battle costing 18,000 Federal and 11,000 Confederate casualties. Undeterred, Grant swung southeast, hoping to interpose between Lee and Richmond and draw the Confederates out of the Wilderness.