Ulysses S. Grant's 'Battle Of The Wilderness'

The Battle of the Wilderness

The Battle of the Wilderness took place May 5-7 1864. This was the first battle that Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee. There was no definite winner or loser of this battle. The battle took place in Spotsylvania and orange, Virginia. The Union had 102,000 people and the Confederate had 61,000. The Union army had 18,400 casualties while the Confederate army had only 11,400. All of the battle was close quarters which brought out a high number of casualties. The battle’s winner was still inconclusive.
It was said that anything of general Lee’s was sacred. The men hung around him and seemed satisfied to lay their hands on his gray horse or to touch the