I Never Expected to Come Out of the Engagement Alive
New for December 2025
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13m
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.
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