The+Wilderness+Battlefield

The soldiers who fought in the wilderness never forgot it. "Imagine," wrote a Union 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 barely see 10 paces." This is just one of the several writtings wrote by the men who in which served in that battle. But think two Great armies marched into this land fighting eachother for two long bloody days in early May 1864.

Both armies in this battle were hurt badly. Both having large amounts of causalities and losses. In this battle it was hard to tell where you were shooting. For all you know you could be shooting your allie. It was extreamely hard to see in the conditons of the wilderness. But they figured out a way to fight it out and as you know there was a huge amount of bloodshed,