Wilderness Campaign

On May 5, 1864, in the early afternoon, Wadsworth's Division of Warren's Corps struck the right flank of Rodes' Confederate Division near this point. With its left already crippled by Griffin's Division on the Turnpike a mile north, Rodes' line here reeled under Wadsworth's attack, and the whole front of Ewell's Corps seemed about to give way. Then Gordon's Brigade, struggling through the same thickets that had caused Wadsworth's troops to lose direction, smashed into the Federal division and drove it back.

Virginia · United States