[Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Volume Two by Ulysses S. Grant]@TWC D-Link bookPersonal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Volume Two CHAPTER L 8/30
This gave him unusual facilities, for that country, for concentrating his forces to his right.
These roads strike the road from Germania Ford in the Wilderness. As soon as the crossing of the infantry was assured, the cavalry pushed forward, Wilson's division by Wilderness Tavern to Parker's store, on the Orange Plank Road; Gregg to the left towards Chancellorsville. Warren followed Wilson and reached the Wilderness Tavern by noon, took position there and intrenched.
Sedgwick followed Warren.
He was across the river and in camp on the south bank, on the right of Warren, by sundown.
Hancock, with the 2d corps, moved parallel with Warren and camped about six miles east of him.
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