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August 10, 2020

The Death of General Alexander Hays at the Battle of the Wilderness

Pennsylvanian Alexander Hays was born in 1819 and graduated in the West Point Class of 1844. As a young officer, Hays served in the Mexican-American War with many future Civil War notables on both...

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April 7, 2014

Colonel Lewis Grant’s Report on the 1st Vermont Brigade at the Battle of the Wilderness

On May 5th, 1864, the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia clashed in the Battle of the Wilderness, the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland...

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The Death of General Alexander Hays at the Battle of the Wilderness

Colonel Lewis Grant’s Report on the 1st Vermont Brigade at the Battle of the Wilderness

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