May 5-7, 1864

Battle of the Wilderness

Principal Commanders: Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade [US]; Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS]

Forces Engaged: 162,920 total (US 101,895; CS 61,025)

Estimated Casualties: 29,800 total (US 18,400; CS 11,400)

•Grant’s army, the union, fought the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in a densely wooded area known as The Wilderness. It was the beginning of Grant’s Overland Campaign

BLOODIEST CAMPAIGN

Fighting was fierce, but inconclusiveThe wilderness made fighting a challenge for both sides The battle ended as a draw.

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/wilderness/maps/wildernessmay5map.html

RESOURCES http://

www.civilwar.org/battlefields/the-wilderness.html?gclid=CP-8iazalasCFe4AQAodmSIx3w

http://www.nps.gov/frsp/wilder.htm

http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va046.htm