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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 .
Shiloh, 1862: The First Great and Terrible Battle of the Civil War (2011) Jones, James B., ed. Tennessee in the Civil War: Selected Contemporary Accounts (2011) 286 pp; Lepa, Jack H. The Civil War in Tennessee, 1862–1863 (2007) McCaslin, Richard B., ed. Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War (2006)
During Battle of the Wilderness rallied and formed, under heavy fire, disorganized and fleeing troops of different regiments. At Petersburg, Virginia, 30 July 1864, bravely and coolly carried orders to the advanced line under severe fire. [5] Action date for Battle of the Wilderness is listed in the Official Record as May 6, 1864. [13]
Cullen, Joseph P. "Battle of Spotsylvania." In Battle Chronicles of the Civil War: 1864, edited by James M. McPherson. Connecticut: Grey Castle Press, 1989. ISBN 1-55905-027-6. First published in 1989 by McMillan. Davis, William C., and the Editors of Time-Life Books. Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books ...
Indecisive cavalry battle during Civil War. March 20, 1863: Battle of Vaught's Hill: Tennessee: D: Union: Union forces withstand attack by John Hunt Morgan's Confederates. March 25, 1863: Battle of Brentwood: Tennessee: D: Confederate: Union force surrenders. March 30 – April 20, 1863: Battle of Washington, NC: North Carolina: D: Inconclusive
The siege was part of the Knoxville campaign of the Civil War. In August and September 1863, Burnside's Army of the Ohio carried out a nearly bloodless invasion of East Tennessee , an area that included a substantial pro-Union population.
Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee was a raid conducted by Confederate Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Tennessee from December 1862 to January 1863, during the American Civil War. Forrest led an expedition of 1,800 [ 1 ] to 2,500 [ 2 ] men into Union -held West Tennessee to disrupt the supply lines of Major General Ulysses S ...
The Battle of Columbia was a series of military actions that took place November 24–29, 1864, in Maury County, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It concluded the movement of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood 's Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Tennessee River in northern Alabama to Columbia ...