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The Culpeper Mine Road was typical of the woods trails that formed the primitive transportation network in the Wilderness, and even a path like this had military significance as Confederate troops from the Stonewall Brigade guarded it near this point. The Union army resumed its attacks against this portion of the Rebel line about 3:00 p.m. May 5. A New Jersey chaplain remembered, "It was impossible to see the enemy, and though we peered through the thick woods, we were fighting invisible foemen." None of these assaults succeeded, and the battle again became the roar of static but constant musketry.
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Lake of the Woods, Virginia · United States
