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Portion of the Wilderness battlefield photographed in 1865 near Palmer and Spotswoods houses. The Wilderness is located south of the Rapidan River in Virginia's Spotsylvania County and Orange County. [47] Its southern border is Spotsylvania Court House, and western border is usually considered the Rapidan River tributary Mine Run. Its eastern ...
Earlier in the war, the Wilderness played a role in the opening of the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 1, 1863, when Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson negated the superior numbers of Union General Joseph "Fighting Joe" Hooker by pushing him back into the Wilderness where he could not easily maneuver and bring his strength to ...
The park was established as Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park on February 14, 1927, and transferred from the War Department August 10, 1933. The lengthy name remains its official designation—75 letters, the longest name of any unit in the national park system.
National Military Park, National Battlefield, National Battlefield Park, and National Battlefield Site are four designations for 25 battle sites preserved by the United States federal government because of their national importance. The designation applies to "sites where historic battles were fought on American soil during the armed conflicts ...
The Wilderness Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8078-2334-1. Glatthaar, Joseph T. General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse. New York: Free Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-684-82787-2. Lyman, Theodore. With Grant and Meade: From the Wilderness to Appomattox. Edited by George R. Agassiz.
Because of its strategic location along a major railroad and proximity to nearby battlefields, the hospital treated over 70,000 wounded men by the end of the war. During Reconstruction, the hotel was known as the Freedman's Bureau Hospital which served newly freed slaves. The building eventually returned to its former use as a hotel, before ...
Lake Wilderness is a census-designated place in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The population at the 2010 Census , was 2,669. [ 1 ] It is flanked on three sides by the Wilderness Battlefield section of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park .
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...