Collateral Damage: Wilderness Woes for the Widows Permelia

For two hellish days early in May 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac and the IX Army Corps locked horns with Robert E. Lee’s vaunted Army of Northern Virginia in the Battle of the Wilderness, the opening gambit in Ulysses Grant’s Overland Campaign. The fighting took place in a wretched tangle of second-growth forest …

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