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  1. A Union Perspective: The Battle of The Wilderness

    Date(s): May 3, 1864 to August 8, 1864 Location: SPOTSYLVANIA, Virginia Tag(s): "Wilderness, Battle of", "Union Army", "Penfield, Nelson", "125th New York Infantry" 

    With a stylistic flavor characteristic of elevated Romantic ideals combined with ornate “battle-piece” rhetoric, Captain Nelson Penfield of the 125th New York Infantry provides historians with a field account of Federal engagements at the Battle of the Wilderness.  His report begins on May 3, 1864, crossing the Rapidan River at Ely’s Ford along with the other units under the command of Brigadier-General...