Lieutenant VanValin Recalls the "Gauntlet of Fire" in The Wilderness
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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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.
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