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Battle of the Wilderness
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The Battle of the Wilderness was a battle of the American Civil War. It was the first battle of the Overland Campaign. It was fought from May 5 to 7, 1864. A Union army commanded by U.S. Grant started marching south to capture Richmond, Virginia. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee, attacked Grant's army in an area called the Wilderness. After two days, Grant wasn't able to defeat Lee's army. He then decided to move the Union army southward to get between Lee and Richmond. This resulted in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. This was a battle that was considered inconclusive
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U.S. Constitution | 13th Amendment • 14th Amendment • 15th Amendment
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Reconstruction | Alabama Claims • Carpetbaggers • Freedman's Savings Bank • Freedmen's Bureau • Redeemers • Southern Claims Commission
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Political | Committee on the Conduct of the War • Confederate war finance • Copperheads • Political General • Radical Republicans • Trent Affair • War Democrats
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Other topics | Bibliography • Commemoration • Draft Riots • Historical reenactment • Music • Names of the War • Native Americans • Photographers • Rail transport • Supreme Court cases • U.S. Sanitary Commission
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