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Taken: 1864
Caption: Battlefield of the "Wilderness"
Additional Description: Views in the woods in the Federal lines on north side of Orange Plank Road. Library of Congress [LC-USZC4-7957]

The night after the battle, a newspaper correspondent wrote “The fighting that has occurred to-day has been wholly in the woods of the most dense and tangled character, filled with underbrush, dead logs, thickets of scrub oak, &c. — a continuation of the woods to the west of Chancellorsville, from which the country has been so appropriate named “Wilderness.”
Submitted: May 1, 2011, by Bernard Fisher of Richmond, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p151854
File Size: 0.685 Megabytes

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