The Atlantic

The Battle of the Wilderness

The field-hospital during the battle of Chancellorsville, to which Stonewall Jackson was taken, — he was carried at first on a litter, and the way lit by pine-knot torches till an ambulance came up, — ...
The Washington Post

Wal-Mart vs. the Wilderness

In May 1864, two armies clashed in a desperate struggle for the course of our nation's history. The Battle of the Wilderness was a great turning point of the Civil War -- the first clash between ...
Kotaku

Rebel Reenactment: Battle of the Wilderness

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Rebel Reenactment: Battle of the Wilderness Fight in massive line battles in this brutal third-person shooter set during the American Civil War, in the ...
Washington Examiner

Battle of the Wilderness to be commemorated in May

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The Civil War Battle of the Wilderness’ 150th anniversary will be commemorated in Orange County in May with living history camps, walking tours and other activities. About 3 ...
The Daily Progress

160 years later, a new Battle of the Wilderness is waged

“Hold on with a bulldog’s grip,” President Abraham Lincoln told Gen. Ulysses S. Grant in May of 1864 amid the Battle of the Wilderness, fought 44 miles north of Charlottesville, as the Union Army ...
The Atlantic

The Battle of the Wilderness

GORDON set off, moving by the left flank, with his own and Robert D. Johnston’s North Carolina brigade, and, after making a détour through the woods, brought his men up as rapidly and noiselessly as ...
The Daily Progress

Caught in the Battle of the Wilderness

The area where the Battle of the Wilderness was fought in early May 1864 was aptly named. For decades, the forests had been cut indiscriminately because iron smelting and the construction of plank ...