1864 display Civil War newspaper w Large Map BATTLE of the WILDERNESS Virginia

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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL Civil War NEWSPAPER, the NY Daily Tribune dated May 9, 1864. This newspaper contains a prominent 10" x 9" detailed front page Civil War map headined: "THE JAMES RIVER MOVEMENT / Scene of Operations by Gen. Butler's Force ---Petersburg, Richmond, and the Railroads." There are many "stacked" headlines as well and 12 columns of detailed news coverage of the BATTLE of the WILDERNESS (VA), a major battle that was part of Grant's OVERLAND CAMPAIGN in VIRGINIA in 1864. The Battle of the Wilderness , fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia . Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia . The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive. Grant attempted to move quickly through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him. On the morning of May 5, the Union V Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren attacked the Confederate Second Corps , commanded by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell , on the Orange Turnpike. That afternoon the Third Corps , commanded by Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill , encountered Brig. Gen. George W. Getty 's division ( VI Corps ) and Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock 's II Corps on the Orange Plank Road. Fighting until dark was fierce but inconclusive as both sides attempted to maneuver in the dense woods. At dawn on May 6, Hancock attacked along the Plank Road, driving Hill's Corps back in confusion, but the First Corps of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet arrived in time to prevent the collapse of the Confederate right flank. Longstreet followed up with a surprise flanking attack from an unfinished railroad bed that drove Hancock's men back to the Brock Road, but the momentum was lost when Longstreet was wounded by his own men. An evening attack by Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon against the Union right flank caused consternation at Union headquarters, but the lines stabilized and fighting ceased. On May 7, Grant disengaged and moved to the southeast, intending to leave the Wilderness to interpose his army between Lee and Richmond, leading to the bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House . The Overland Campaign , also known as Grant's Overland Campaign and the Wilderness Campaign , was a series of battles fought in Virginia during May and June 1864, in the American Civil War . Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant , general-in-chief of all Union armies, directed the actions of the Army of the Potomac , commanded by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade , and other forces against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia . Although Grant suffered severe losses during the campaign, it was a strategic Union victory. It inflicted proportionately higher losses on Lee's army and maneuvered it into a siege at Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia , in just over eight weeks. Crossing the Rapidan River on May 4, 1864, Grant sought to defeat Lee's army by quickly placing his forces between Lee and Richmond and inviting an open battle. Lee surprised Grant by attacking the larger Union army aggressively in the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5–7), resulting in heavy casualties on both sides. Unlike his predecessors in the Eastern Theater , however, Grant did not withdraw his army following this setback, but instead maneuvered to the southeast, resuming his attempt to interpose his forces between Lee and Richmond. Lee's army was able to get into position to block this movement. At the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (May 8–21), Grant repeatedly attacked segments of the Confederate d... read more

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