Tag: may-5th-1864

After waiting for hours for Meade to stop talking about attacking, and actually attack, Grant has had enough and will now take action to deal with the growing rebel threat.

Discover the fate of Harry Wilson's cavalry division and why it was absent and miles away during the opening hours of the Battle of the Wilderness (Part II).

Discover the fate of Harry Wilson's cavalry division and why it was absent and miles away during the opening hours of the Battle of the Wilderness (Part I).

The Army of the Potomac has now discovered two massive rebel forces forming on both sides of their morning camp.

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, Major General George Meade, and the Army of the Potomac have spent the night in the fabled Wilderness. What could go wrong?