. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ■—-^■^■^^■iM. COPVRIGHT, , PATRIOT PUB. CO. A LOSS L\ EFFECTIVE STRENGTH—WOUNDED AT FREDERICKSBURG Federal wounded in the Wilderness eanipaijjn, at Fredericksburg. Grant lost per cent, iif his numbers engaged in the two daysbattles of the Wilderness alone. Lees loss was per cent. More than a+.OOO of the .\rmy of the Potomac and of the .\rmy of North-ern \irginia lay suffering in those uninhabited thickets. There many of them died alone, and some perished in the horror of a forestfire on tlic night of May 5th. The Federals
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ■—-^■^■^^■iM. COPVRIGHT, , PATRIOT PUB. CO. A LOSS L\ EFFECTIVE STRENGTH—WOUNDED AT FREDERICKSBURG Federal wounded in the Wilderness eanipaijjn, at Fredericksburg. Grant lost per cent, iif his numbers engaged in the two daysbattles of the Wilderness alone. Lees loss was per cent. More than a+.OOO of the .\rmy of the Potomac and of the .\rmy of North-ern \irginia lay suffering in those uninhabited thickets. There many of them died alone, and some perished in the horror of a forestfire on tlic night of May 5th. The Federals lost many gallant officers, among them the veteran Wadsworth. The Confederates lostGenerals Jenkins and Jones, killed, and suffered a staggering lilow in the disabling of Longstrcet. The series of battles of the Wilder-ness and Spotsylvania campaigns were more costly to the Federals than .tietam and Gettysburg combined.
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