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Brigadier General and Brevet Major General James S. Wadsworth, commanding the 4th Division, V Corps, Army of the Potomac, was mortally wounded near this spot May 6, 1864, and died two days later in the field hospital of Hill’s Confederate Corps. He fell while attempting desperately to resist a Confederate advance that threatened the strategic Plank-Brock Road intersection.
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Lake Wilderness, Virginia · United States
