- Against the closing of the war in the West, Sherman loses his son to typhoid and becomes an adherent to a scorched earth policy of war. Meanwhile, Grant is promoted to Lieutenant General-the second since George Washington-and Grant's 1864 invasion of Virginia in which he faces Lee and his dear friend-now foe-James Longstreet begins with the Battle of the Wilderness...—Michael Frost Beckner
- The Battle of the Wilderness........ where Longstreet is wounded seriously by his own men very near the spot where Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own forces. Union General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is seriously wounded at the Siege of Petersburg and pronounced dead in the newspapers.
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