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Wilderness during the Civil War, The

The Wilderness of Spotsylvania was a tightly forested area nearly twelve miles wide by six miles long; it was located south of the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers, ten miles west of Fredericksburg, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), two major battles were fought there: Chancellorsville, in May 1863, where Confederate general Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson famously outflanked Union forces under Joseph . . .

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Cities–Fry-Jefferson

Cities of Virginia
Culpeper, Thomas, second baron Culpeper of Thoresway (1635–1689)
Exploration, The Age of
Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia

Late–Shenandoah

Late Woodland Period (AD 900–1650)
Lewis and Clark Expedition, The
Little Ice Age and Colonial Virginia, The
Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War

Wilderness–Zúñiga

Wilderness during the Civil War, The
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