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Baptists and the American Civil War: May 5, 1864

Wasting no time, today Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia takes position in front of Union General Ulysses S. Grant‘s Army of the Potomac. The federals, having crossed the Rapidan River only yesterday, number some 120,000, nearly twice the size of Lee’s army. Along the Orange Turnpike and Orange Plank Road, parallel…

May 5, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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