Devilish Entanglement
American Civil War
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34m
Experience the Battle of the Wilderness through the eyes of the soldiers who were there. Filmed on the original battlefield during an Authentic Reenactment and narrated with original accounts, the combat inside that “Devilish Entanglement” comes to life.
The Wilderness is where the American Civil War took a dark turn. Gone were the days of glittering breastplates and fluttering colors on fields of gallantry. The horror that awaited both sides in those hellish woods, still littered with the bones of those killed at Chancellorsville a year earlier, would spell the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.
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