The Vermont Brigade

In these woods during the Battle of the Wilderness on May 5 and 6, 1864, Vermont's "Old Brigade" suffered 1,234 casualties while defending the intersection of Brock Road and Orange Plank Road. Brigadier General Lewis A. Grant, the brigade commander, said that the flag of each regiment, though pierced and tattered, still flaunted in the face of the foe, and that noble bands of veterans with thinned ranks and but a few officers to command still stood by them, determined to stand so long as there was a man to bear their flag aloft or an enemy in the field.

Lake Wilderness, Virginia · United States