Video: 'Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle of the Wilderness' (May 6, 1864, at 32:52)
(Friday, May 6, 1864; during the Overland Campaign of the American Civil War) — Confederate General James Longstreet was caught in the fire of his own troops during the Battle of the Wilderness today near Fredericksburg, Virginia, leaving his right arm paralyzed.