Several hundred soldiers were killed in this battle when Saunders Field caught fire from the shooting of guns in close quarters.
Several hundred soldiers were killed in this battle when Saunders Field caught fire from the shooting of guns in close quarters. This began when troops under Gouverneur Warren intercepted Richard Ewell's Second Corps on the Orange Turnpike. Confederate generals Leroy Stafford, John Jones, and Micah Jenkins were killed at this battle, and James Longstreet was accidently shot by one of his own men. Though Grant wanted to avoid fighting on the same battlefield where Chancellorsville had been fought on a year earlier, Lee attacked first in an attempt to use the terrain as a counter to Grant's superior numbers. Name this battle that ended about three days before the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, the first battle of the Overland Campaign.
Several hundred soldiers were killed in this battle when Saunders Field caught fire from the shooting of guns in close quarters.
Battle of the Wilderness [or Wilderness campaign]