The Battle of the Wilderness with Chris Mackowski
New for May 2026
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58m
Daz is joined by author, historian, & Co-Founder of Emerging Civil War, Chris Mackowski, to discuss The Battle of the Wilderness.
The Battle of the Wilderness occurred in May 1864 and was the first engagement in a series of conflicts between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, known as the Overland Campaign.
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