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Union
Casualties: 18,400
Confederate Casualties:
11,400
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Statistical Source: NPW
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From the Wilderness to Petersburg:
Beginning on the old Chancellorsville battlefield on
May 5, 1864, and continuing without a break for the
six bloodiest weeks of the war, Grant
tried again and again to get around the right flank
of Lee's army, destroy
it, then move on Richmond and end the war. And again
and again, Lee saw what he was trying to do and managed
to thwart him. The struggle continued along a hundred-mile
crescent before two exhausted armies settled in for
a siege at Petersburg, southeast of the Confederate
capital.
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