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Tucked away in the Wilderness's trackless forest were several small clearings where families with names like Higgerson, Chewning, and Tapp eked out a meager living tilling the region's thin soil. Saunders Field was an abandoned corn patch in 1864, and with the arrival of the armies on May 5 it became a brutal smoking killing field. The Orange Turnpike, modern Route 20, bisected Saunders Field. A major thoroughfare early in the 1800s, the turnpike later lost much of its traffic to the Orange Plank Road. By the time of the battle, it was a quiet country road that by dint of war became world famous.
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Lake of the Woods, Virginia · United States
