VI Corps (Union army)
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The VI Corps was a corps of the Union army during the American Civil War.
Monument to commemorate the death of General John Sedgwick, Commander of the VI Corps, at Spotsylvania National Military Park, Virginia, USA.
Battle of the Wilderness
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The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Genera
VI Corps (Union army)
…artillery (48 guns), and a battalion of heavy artillery acting as infantry; numbering in all, 24,163, "present for duty, equipped". In the battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania of the Overland Campaign, the VI Corps encountered the hardest contested fighting of its experience. At the Wilderness, the Vermont…
Grant being cheered by his men after the battle
Maj Gen G. Meade
Gen R. E. Lee
Portion of the Wilderness battlefield photographed in 1865 near Palmer and Spotswoods houses