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Union Army into the Wilderness. If placed end-to-end, these wagons would have stretched a distance of 60 miles.
* The “Wilderness” is an area of second-growth stunted pines with thick undergrowth of bushes and vines. The tangled ground cover had a greater density than the woods growing in the Wilderness today.
* In the dense, tangled undergrowth of the Wilderness, units became separated and lost. These conditions indelibly changed the way war was fought — from rigid
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