James Longstreet
Winfield S. Hancock
bitka v ameriški državljanski vojni (1864)
Battle of the Wilderness
сражение во время Гражданской войны в США
Schlacht des Sezessionskriegs
bitwa wojny secesyjnej
Yhdysvaltain sisällissodan taistelu 5.–7. toukokuuta 1864
John Sedgwick
Suddenly, to the horror of the living, fire was seen creeping over the ground, fed by dead leaves which were thick. All who could move tried to get beyond the Pike, which the fire could not cross. Some were overtaken by the flames....
veldslag in Verenigde Staten van Amerika
Lee established his headquarters at the Widow Tapp farm. Lee, Jeb Stuart, and Hill were meeting there when they were surprised by a party of Union soldiers entering the clearing. The three generals ran for safety and the Union men, who were equally surprised by the encounter, returned to the woods, unaware of how close they had come to changing the course of history.
Ulysses S. Grant
Richard S. Ewell
* Army of Northern Virginia ** First Corps ** Second Corps ** Third Corps ** Cavalry Corps
Gouverneur K. Warren
* Army of the Potomac ** 20px II Corps ** 20px V Corps ** 20px VI Corps ** Cavalry Corps * 20px IX Corps
Unnamed wounded soldier, 7th Indiana Infantry
Confederate States
A. P. Hill
Forest fires raged; ammunition trains exploded; the dead were roasted in the conflagration; the wounded, roused by its hot breath, dragged themselves along, with their torn and mangled limbs, in the mad energy of despair, to escape the ravages of the flames; and every bush seemed hung with shreds of blood-stained clothing....
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Philip Sheridan
The Wilderness was "peculiarly unsuitable for the operations of cavalry, covered ... in every direction with dense thickets that were impenetrable to horsemen and intersected by few and narrow paths which permitted of movement only in long-extended and thin columns...."
United States
Spotsylvania County and Orange County, Virginia
George G. Meade
batalla de la Guerra de Secesión
Ambrose E. Burnside
Inconclusive
Brigadier General James H. Wilson, 3rd Cavalry Division
1864 battle of the American Civil War
az amerikai polgárháború csatája
General Grant cheered by his men after the Battle of the Wilderness
the American Civil War
bataille de la guerre de Sécession
J. E. B. Stuart
Lt. Col. Horace Porter, Grant's staff
Robert E. Lee
right
Slag in de Wildernis
Bitwa w dziczy
Битва в Глуши
Schlacht in der Wilderness
莽原之役
Battaglia del Wilderness
Slaget vid Wilderness
Bataille de la Wilderness
荒野の戦い
معركة ويلدرنس
Batalla de la espesura
Batalla de Wilderness