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Wilderness, battle of the
At midnight on May 3, 1864, the Army of the Potomac, fully 100,000 strong, fresh and hopeful, and with an immense army-train, began its march towards Richmond.
The right was composed of the corps of Warren and Sedgwick, and the left of that of Hancock.
Warren's cavalry, preceded by that of Wilson, crossed the Rapidan at Germania Ford on the morning of the 4th, followed by Sedgwick.
The left, preceded by Gregg's cavalry, and followed by the entire army-train of wagons, 4,000 in number, crossed at Ely's Ford at the same time.
Burnside's 9th Corps, left behind in anticipation of a possible move of Lee on Washington, crossed the Rapidan and joined the army on the 5th, when the whole force had pushed on into the region known as The wilderness, beyond Chancellorsville, and well on the right flank of the Confederate army lying behind strong intrenchments on Mine Run.
The whole force of the National army was now about 130,000 men, of whom a little more than