Living History Reenactment: “The 1864 Eastern Campaign: The Wilderness”
Carroll County Farm Museum 500 South Center St, Westminster, MD, United StatesThe Battle of the Wilderness was the first battle of Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s "Overland Campaign." Grant’s goal was to defeat Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and capture the South’s capital at Richmond. The battle took place in an area of Virginia where tangled underbrush and trees had grown up