The Wilderness battlefield, photograph by G. O. Brown, c. 1866.
Depicted here is a post-war view of the woods where the Battle of the Wilderness (5-7 May 1864) was fought, one of the bloodiest and most desperate engagements of the American Civil War (1861-1865).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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