Shortly after Warren runs into the Confederates on the turnpike, Union Brig. The arrival of the Union Sixth Corps does little more than broaden the front and lengthen the list of casualties. The Yankees achieve a momentary breakthrough, but swift action by Brig. When Warren’s men step out of the woods and into the open, Ewell’s troops exact a fearful toll in casualties. Ewell’s Confederate corps halt three miles west of Wilderness Tavern and build strong earthworks on the west edge of Saunders Field. While Warren and Meade debate the merits of an attack along the Orange Turnpike, Gen. Warren’s protests notwithstanding, his corps move to a position astride the turnpike. The Fifth Corps chief, however, is apprehensive about making an attack in the Wilderness, where impenetrable thickets will make it difficult to maintain a battle line and will nullify the Federals’ numerical superiority. George Meade, orders Warren to strike the Confederates.
Warren advances, he receives word that Confederate infantry is approaching from the west on the Orange Turnpike. Grant intends to push the army through the rough terrain into open ground as quickly as possible, yet he will not shy away from attacking Robert E. Warren’s Fifth Corps thumps across the ford and enters the dense, forbidding woodland known as the Wilderness. At dawn on May 4, Union cavalry splash across Germanna Ford, dispersing Confederate cavalry pickets and enabling Union engineers to construct two pontoon bridges. In early May, the Army of the Potomac and independent Ninth Corps leave their winter camps in Culpeper County and march south toward the Rapidan River fords. It is Lee's hope that his scouts and cavalry will alert him in time to respond once Grant reveals his intentions. James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, patrols the countryside past the ends of the Rapidan line. James Longstreet's First Corps wait in the rear at Gordonsville, ready to reinforce the Rapidan works or shift to Richmond, as necessary. Hill's Third Corps behind earthworks along the Rapidan River. In anticipation of Grant's expected onslaught, Lee leaves Lt. To the relief of President Lincoln and the joy of his men, the general continued his advance toward Richmond. Despite the outcome, Grant did not retreat. The fight would prove deadly for both sides, and after 48 hours of intense combat, neither was the victor. The two armies eventually met in the dense woods known as the Wilderness. By early 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia faced each other across the Rapidan River in central Virginia. He would concentrate on general strategy while Meade would oversee tactical matters. Grant decided to make his headquarters with the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj.
INTO THE WILDERNESS WILD ARMS SERIES
Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in a series of battles to defend the Southern capital, making it impossible for Lee to send troops into Georgia, where Maj. The primary goal of this Overland Campaign was to engage Robert E. Grant immediately began planning a major offensive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond. In March 1864, Lincoln named Grant general-in-chief of all Union armies. Despite the costly nature of the battle, Grant refused to order a retreat, having promised President Abraham Lincoln that regardless of the outcome, he would not halt his army’s advance. The Union army suffered more than 17,500 casualties over 48 hours, thousands more than the toll endured by the Confederates. After two days of combat, the two armies were essentially where they had been at the start of the battle. The bloody Battle of the Wilderness, in which no side could claim victory, marked the first stage of a major Union offensive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, ordered by the newly named Union general-in-chief Ulysses S.
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