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Identifier: historyofamerica03drap (find matches)
Title: History of the American Civil War
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Draper, John William, 1811-1882
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery Slaves
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e marched that day was 12miles. In the evening Meade was in the midst of that tangledGrants army enters forest to which the battle of Chancellorsvillethe wilderness. had ^^ celebrity__tiie Wilderness. It is a region of worn-out tobacco-fields, covered with scraggyoaks, sassafras, hazel, pine, intersected with narrow roadsand deep ravines. The two columns were about five milesapart. Grant had expected that, as soon as Lee discoveredthis movement on his right, he would fall back towardRichmond; Lee, however, perhaps inspired by the reminis-cence of Chancellorsville, and considering that the effectof preponderating numbers would be much diminished bythe embarrassments of the forest, in which artillery couldnot be used, and large bodies of troops be almost in pres-ence of each other without being seen, determined to at-tempt to strike Grant on the flank as he passed throughthe woods. Scarcely had the national army begun itsmarch when Lees signal-fires were calling up his distantIII.—A A
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Chap. LXXXII.) BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS. 37l Advance of troops. By dark on the 4th, Ewell, who had Lees army. move(j 011 the Orange Turnpike, and Hill, on the Orange Plank Road, had approached near to the Old Wilderness Tavern, where Warren lay. Longstreet was to follow Hill. Early on the next morning the advance corps, the 5th(Warren), was struck by Ewells column, andwilderness-tot the battle began. At first Meade supposedthat this was merely a division left to maskLees retreat; but toward, the middle of the day Grantperceived what Lees intentions were. Thus far the con-test had been between Warren and Ewell, the former hav-ing been pressed back. As Ewells forces came up, therewas danger that Warrens right would be turned: two ofSedgwicks divisions were therefore sent to that point.The conflict raged without decisive result until 4 oclock,when both parties fell back and began fortifying their po-sitions. They were but a hundred or two yards apart,and, though the ring of axes felling

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