A Voice in the Wilderness

U.S. Grant’s famous order changed the Union’s tune—but had Meade thought of it first? Few places in the Civil War were less pleasant than the Wilderness battlefield on May 7, 1864. Two days of brutal and bitter battle with Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had marked Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s initiation …

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