Bell Ringer: Civil War: Battle of the Wilderness Description Peter Carmichael and Gordon Rhea talked about the tactics of generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant during the Battle of the ...

Civil War buffs and other history-minded readers who wish to deepen their knowledge of this campaign can start by reading Rhea’s "The Battle of the Wilderness" (1994), reissued in paperback ...

LOCUST GROVE – Three-year-old Mira Bracken giggled as she nibbled on a string bean from her perch in the shade of a Civil War-era pup tent pitched by Yankee soldiers Battle of the Wilderness ...

LOCUST GROVE — Three-year-old Mira Bracken giggled as she nibbled on a string bean from her perch in the shade of a Civil War-era pup tent pitched by Yankee soldiers from Maryland. Well, not ...

As battlefield sites across the United States prepare for an expected onslaught of visitors connected to the Civil War's 150th anniversary, many of them are shrinking away, acre by acre.

The Wilderness battlefield cannot be moved. It is a one-of-a-kind place, where tens of thousands of Union and Confederate boys died in the Civil War. You can't just shift the signs down the road a ...