File:Battle of the Wilderness Cavalry May 6.png
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English: Cavalry action south of the infantry fronts in the Battle of the Wilderness in the American Civil War on May 6. Gregg's 2nd Cavalry Division and Custer's and Devin's brigades from Torbert's 1st Cavalry Division fought against the Confederate brigades of Rosser, Wickham, and Lomax. |
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| Source | This is a crop from a Wikimedia Commons file named Wilderness May5 0700.png that has been modified by TwoScarsUp. The modifications (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 (Hal Jespersen), and TwoScarsUp made the cavalry modifications that show the positions of Hancock's infantry and Union and Confederate cavalry. Portions of the original have been cropped. The original was drawn in Adobe Illustrator CS5 by Hal Jespersen. Graphic source file is available at http://www.posix.com/CWmaps/ |
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| current | 19:59, 30 August 2021 |  | 856 × 524 (256 KB) | TwoScarsUp | Uploaded a work by The original author is User:Hlj (Hal Jespersen), and TwoScarsUp made the cavalry modifications that show the positions of Hancock's infantry and Union and Confederate cavalry. Portions of the original have been cropped. The original was drawn in Adobe Illustrator CS5 by Hal Jespersen. Graphic source file is available at http://www.posix.com/CWmaps/ from This is a crop from a Wikimedia Commons file named Wilderness May5 0700.png that has been modified by TwoScarsUp. The mo... |
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