Wilderness Campaign

The thick underbrush in the Wilderness made it difficult to see the enemy and impossible to keep lines in formation. When fires broke out, wounded men were burned to death. Two days of fighting in the Wilderness resulted in approximately 18,000 Union casualties and 10,000 Confederate casualties.

Grant was unable to overpower Lee in the Wilderness, Grant moved south to Spotsylvania Courthouse (next tour.).

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Confederate General Ewell's Corps entrenched on Saunders Field			Higgerson Farm Sign
Chewning Farm		Texas Monument	Center of the battle
Federal trenches - Hancock's Position		New Jersey Monument	Suburbia meets the Battlefield

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Guidebook: No Backward Step, A Guide to Grant's Campaign in Virginia