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The Wilderness
5–7 May 1864 — Grant’s first battle against Lee is a two-day inferno in burning scrub: 18,000 Union casualties. Then, at the Brock Road crossroads, the army turns south instead of back — and the men cheer. This general does not retreat.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — Hard War in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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