Image: BattleOfTheWilderness - HammondAndHill

Description: Positions of Union and Confederate soldiers at beginning of Battle of the Wilderness, with focus on Hammond's cavalry regiment (part of Wilson's Cavalry Division). The regiment needed to prevent Hill's Corps from reaching the intersection of Brock Road with the Orange Plank Road.
Title: BattleOfTheWilderness - HammondAndHill
Credit: A Wikimedia Commons file named 5th NY Cavalry at Beginning of the Battle of the Wilderness in the American Civil War.png that is a modification of a file named Wilderness May5 0700.png that has been modified by TwoScarsUp. The modifications (Wilson's cavalry) are based on information and illustrations in The Wilderness Campaign, edited by Gary W. Gallagher. The chapter in the book is called Union Cavalry in the Wilderness, and it was written by Gordon C. Rhea.
Author: The original author is User:Hlj, and a small modification by TwoScars Up shows the position of the 5th NY Cavalry (Hammond) has been added plus part of the west side has been cropped. The original was drawn in Adobe Illustrator CS5 by Hal Jespersen. Graphic source file is available at http://www.posix.com/CWmaps/ .mw-parser-output .responsive-license-cc{clear:both;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;justify-content:space-around;align-items:center;margin:0.5em auto;background-color:#f9f9f9;border:2px solid #e0e0e0;border-spacing:8px;display:flex}.mw-parser-output .responsive-license-cc div{margin:4px}.mw-parser-output .rlicense-text div{margin:0.5em auto}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .responsive-license-cc{flex-flow:column}.mw-parser-output .rlicense-text{order:1}} This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Map by Hal Jespersen, www.posix.com/CW You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0CC BY 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 truetrue
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