| Title |
Civil War Virginia, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Virginia, circa 1971-1990
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| Description |
Civil War Virginia, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Virginia, circa 1971-1990. Caption: "Civil War Virginia, The Wilderness. On May 5, 1864, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee engaged in battle for the first time in a tangled forest known as the Wilderness. Units lost all semblance of order in the woods and accidentally shot many of their comrades. To add to the horror, the dry woods caught fire from the flashes of the guns, and when the two-day battle ended in a stalemate the Wilderness was filled with blackened corpses. Background: The Wilderness Battlefield. Top right: Union Brig. General James S. Wadsworth Monument." Postcard number: VA 186.
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| Extent |
2 images; Postcard; color |
| Date |
1971/1990 |
| Location |
United States; Spotsylvania; Keysville; Virginia; North America |
| Subject(s) |
Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Battlefields; Postcards; Monuments and memorials; Wadsworth, James S. (James Samuel), 1807-1864; Cannons |
| Citation |
Institute of American Deltiology Postcard Collection, Series Virginia, Box 13 |
| Permanent Link |
https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/15092
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| Rights |
http://vocab.lib.umd.edu/rightsStatement#CNE
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| Terms of Use |
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