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U. S. CIVIL WAR
PHOTOGRAPHS
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THE WILDERNESS
(PAGE 7 OF 12)
Click on a number on this map to see a photograph from that location.
The numbered locations on this map are shown in parentheses ( ) in the text.
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General Cadmus M. Wilcox 94
At this time, Lee sent General Cadmus M. Wilcox's Division, of Hill's Corps, to
fill the gap between Hill's Corps, on the Orange Plank Road, and Ewell's Corps,
on the Orange Turnpike.
Chewning Farm - 2000 (6)
Wilderness Run - 2001 (7)
Wilderness Run Bridge - 2000 (7)
Wilderness Run Bridge (Another view) - 2000 (7)
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The Higgerson Farm - 2000 (8)
Before you are the fields of the Higgerson Farm, one of only a few major
clearings on the Wilderness Battlefield. On the afternoon of May 5, Union
troops swept across this open space, bound for bewildering combat in the
thickets to the north and west.
When the Federals trampled her fence and garden Permelia Higgerson emerged
from her house, berated the Yankees, and predicted their quick repulse.
"We didn't pay much attention to what she said," admitted a Pennsylvanian,
"but the result proved that she was right."
After a succession of bloody clashes in the distant woods, the Federals
retreated back across this field. Mrs. Higgerson taunted them as they
passed.
Source: National Park Service
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