Battle of the Wilderness
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The <entity_0>, fought <entity_6>–7, 1864, was the first <entity_5> of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's and General George G. Meade's 1864 <entity_4> Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern <entity_4> in the <entity_2>. On the morning of <entity_6>, the <entity_7> V Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren attacked the Confederate Second Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, on the Orange Turnpike. On May 4, 1864, the Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan River at three separate points and converged on the Wilderness Tavern, near the edge of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, an area of more than 70 sq mi (181 km2) of <entity_1> and <entity_3> in central <entity_4>. But Grant chose to set up his camps to the west of the old <entity_5> site before moving southward; unlike the <entity_7> army of a year before, Grant had no desire to fight in the Wilderness, preferring to move to the open ground to the south and east of the Wilderness before fighting Lee, thereby taking advantage of his superior numbers and artillery. Thus, the Overland Campaign, initiated by the crossing of the Rappahannock, and opening with this <entity_5>, set in motion the eventual destruction of the Army of Northern <entity_4>. Under such circumstances previous <entity_7> commanders in <entity_4> had withdrawn behind the nearest river. For the first time in a <entity_4> campaign the Army of the Potomac stayed on the offensive after its initial <entity_5>. The following table summarizes estimates from a number of sources: Gordon C. Rhea acknowledges the officially reported <entity_7> casualties of 17,666, but suspects that some of the returns—particularly in Warren's corps—were falsified on the low side, to minimize the negative impact of the <entity_5> on the public.
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