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The Wilderness
Voracious cultivation of tobacco and incessant logging combined to create a forbidding landscape in the Wilderness -- a 70-square-mile area of tangled forest and narrow roads.
Though thick woods rendered artillery less effective at the Wilderness than on other battlefields, this log vividly demonstrates that artillery was still used here. So-called "battle logs" were considered prime artifacts in the decades after the Civil War. This is the most dramatic example from the Wilderness. |