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It s easy to understand why panic spread and why, at times, Union and Confederate soldiers found themselves side-by-side in battle, brothers for a brief period of time.
At the end of the two days, 17,666 Union soldiers were killed, wounded, captured or missing. The Confederates lost between 7,800 and 10,000.
On May 7, 1864, there was silence in the woods, the smell of smoke and burning bodies still filled the air, and the two rival armies warily viewed each other in the smoldering forests.
It appeared that the Army of the Potomac had been beaten just as badly as it had been one year earlier here in the Wilderness near Chancellorsville.
At dusk, the Army of the Potomac was pulled back' from its firing lines and put in motion. An air of defeat passed through the ranks, but when they moved, they went south, not north. As the exhausted soldiers realized that they were not retreating, they sent up a cheer!
For the next eleven months, the Union army would continue to move always southward, with the sole object of destroying the Confederate armies in the field — Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Saylor’s Creek and, finally, Appomattox.
Ultimately, Grant accomplished what he set out to do and kept his promise to President Lincoln that “there will be no turning back.”
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