The Wilderness of Spotsylvania

In colonial times, in the 17 hundreds, there were a large iron ore, small iron or deposits found there. By that time, they had cut down most of the forests around to burn them to smelt the ironore. So whit the forest cut down, what came back was a second growth,. And you've got low, scrubby woods with a lot of thickets. It's very thick forest. Artillery is useless in that terrain. Advantages in numbers are almost useless. Lee meets hem over here. And this is an area that is favorable to lee. But grant is eager to fight lee any place he can get to him.