During the 1864 battle of the Wilderness, three Union soldiers and three Confederate Soldiers get separated from their units as twilight engulfs the ravaged battlefield. The men wander alone through the dangerous woods, separate from each other until they meet by chance on the banks of a quiet cr...

A family-held portrait of 1st Lt. Waldo C. VanValin of the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry opens the door to his vivid first-person account of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign and the brutal fighting at the Battle of the Wilderness. Here's VanValin's recollection.

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 Civi...

A retro documentary about the massive two-day battle is covered in detail in this two-hour documentary of the Battle of the Wilderness. Filmed in the actual Wilderness, west of Fredericksburg, Virginia, The Battle of the Wilderness is the complete story of the beginning of the Overland Campaign o...

Captain Dennis Barnes of the 93rd New York Infantry found himself deep in The Wilderness on the night of May 5, 1864, searching for men wounded and left behind in the thick underbrush after a brutal, bloody, and relentless day of combat. Here's what happened next.

During the Army of the Potomac’s 1864 advance across the Rapidan River and deep into enemy territory in Virginia, Union and Confederate forces clashed in The Wilderness—by all accounts some of the fiercest fighting of the war. Here's an eyewitness account by artilleryman Charles B. Brockway.