Wilderness: Driving Tour

In the spring of 1864 the US Army of the Potomac and Confederate Army of Northern Virginia found themselves in the same position they had been a year earlier, with one major difference. Lincoln had appointed General Ulysses S. Grant commander of all US armies. Drive the Wilderness Battlefield, the first clash between Lee and Grant in the Overland Campaign. This tour follows the route indicted by the numbered stops on the circular battlefield tour signs on the park map and out in the landscape.