The Battle of the Wilderness
“On May 5th 1864 the rival armies marched into the heart of the Wilderness and began a fight that lasted until the end of the war.”
The Wilderness Battlefield 2014
The fighting in the Virginia Wilderness in the spring of 1864 was the beginning of US Grant’s Overland Campaign.
See the link below for the story and images of the Wilderness Battlefield and battle reenactments in Virginia in spring 2014.
Sun set over the Union encampment in Spotsylvania County Virginia 2014
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