The Battle of the Wilderness “Imagine,” wrote a North Carolina officer named W.A. Smith, “a great, dismal forest containing . . . the worst kind of thicket of second-growth trees . . . so thick with small pines and scrub oak, cedar, dogwood and other growth common to the country . . . [that] one could see barely ten paces” (qtd. in Kennedy 203). This description is of the area known as the Wilderness, where over 135 years ago, one of the greatest Civil War …showed first 75 words of 1779 total…

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