A history of the United States for Catholic schools . d the Wilderness, adensely wooded region south of Chancellorsville. Here the two armies met in a hotlycontested, but undecisive,two days battle. After the second daysfighting. Grant telegraphedPresident Lincoln, I pro-pose to fight it out on thisline if it takes all meant that he wouldhammer and batter Leeslines until he broke throughby sheer fighting force andweight of numbers. Thisiprocess of fighting wascosting Grant two or threemen to Lees one. After a days rest in thejWilderness, Grant marched toward Richmond and again en-cou
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . d the Wilderness, adensely wooded region south of Chancellorsville. Here the two armies met in a hotlycontested, but undecisive,two days battle. After the second daysfighting. Grant telegraphedPresident Lincoln, I pro-pose to fight it out on thisline if it takes all meant that he wouldhammer and batter Leeslines until he broke throughby sheer fighting force andweight of numbers. Thisiprocess of fighting wascosting Grant two or threemen to Lees one. After a days rest in thejWilderness, Grant marched toward Richmond and again en-countered Lee in another battle of two days terrible fightingat Spottsylvania Courthouse. The battles of the Wildernessand Spottsylvania were among the bloodiest of the war. Inthe Wilderness, the timber and undergrowth rendered allorderly movement of the troops impossible. The opposing|(forces mowed each other down with the most deadly fire. Hadthe battle of Spottsylvania continued another day, it would havesurpassed that of Gettysburg in loss of Tlie IVllderness District. m^sm£!M&tiv-iij<i-~
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