Battle of the Wilderness | Wikipedia audio article
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Battle of the Wilderness


00:02:02 1 Background
00:02:10 1.1 Military situation
00:03:35 2 Opposing forces
00:03:45 2.1 Union
00:05:16 2.2 Confederate
00:06:20 3 Disposition of forces and movement to battle
00:11:14 4 Battle
00:11:23 4.1 May 5: Orange Turnpike
00:14:53 4.2 May 5: Orange Plank Road
00:16:48 4.3 Plans for May 6
00:18:07 4.4 May 6: Longstreet's attacks
00:21:29 4.5 May 6: Gordon's attacks
00:23:27 4.6 May 7
00:24:25 5 Aftermath
00:27:07 5.1 Casualties
00:27:48 6 Battlefield preservation
00:29:58 7 In popular culture
00:30:08 7.1 Film and television
00:31:07 7.2 Literature
00:32:08 7.3 Music
00:32:24 7.4 Commemorative postal stamps
00:33:04 8 See also



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The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, around 5,000 men killed in total, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia. The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive.
Grant attempted to move quickly through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him. On the morning of May 5, the Union V Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren attacked the Confederate Second Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, on the Orange Turnpike. That afternoon the Third Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. A. P. Hill, encountered Brig. Gen. George W. Getty's division (VI Corps) and Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps on the Orange Plank Road. Fighting until dark was fierce but inconclusive as both sides attempted to maneuver in the dense woods.
At dawn on May 6, Hancock attacked along the Plank Road, driving Hill's Corps back in confusion, but the First Corps of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet arrived in time to prevent the collapse of the Confederate right flank. Longstreet followed up with a surprise flanking attack from an unfinished railroad bed that drove Hancock's men back to the Brock Road, but the momentum was lost when Longstreet was wounded by his own men. An evening attack by Brig. Gen. John B. Gordon against the Union right flank caused consternation at Union headquarters, but the lines stabilized and fighting ceased. On May 7, Grant disengaged and moved to the southeast, intending to leave the Wilderness to interpose his army between Lee and Richmond, leading to the bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House