The Forgotten Commander-Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter – Locust Grove VA
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Don.Morfe
N 38° 19.054 W 077° 45.380
18S E 259027 N 4244645
Marker is near Locust Grove, Virginia, in Orange County, 22508. Marker is on Constitution Highway (State Highway 20) in the Wilderness Battlefield Exhibit Shelter. The marker is at stop two of the driving tour of the Wilderness Battlefield.
Waymark Code: WM18K7Z
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 08/15/2023
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The Forgotten Commander
Respected but little applauded, possessed of an acerbic temper, and overshadowed by Ulysses S. Grant, Major General George Gordon Meade commanded the Army of the Potomac during the Battle of the Wilderness. Grant commanded all Union armies, but his decision to ride with the Army of the Potomac would mark that army as his own, leaving Meade to toil in relative obscurity for the next eleven months.
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