Civil War Trust

Wilderness 2010

Saunders Field Landscape

View of the Orange Turnpike and Saunders Field from the property that the Civil War Trust saved in early 2011.

Rob Shenk
Saunders Field

View of a section of Saunders Field - the site of some of the toughest fighting at the Battle of the Wilderness.

Rob Shenk
Satellite Image of Saunders Field

Satellite view of the 49-acre property at the Wilderness Battlefield that the Civil War Trust saved in early 2011. Take note of all the recent residential development at the edges of this historic battlefield.

Google Earth
Target Property - Modern Home

View of the one modern home on the target property that CWPT is working to save on the Wilderness Battlefield in 2010.

Rob Shenk
The Wilderness - Gordon's Flank at Attack

View of the wooded landscape near the spot where John B. Gordon launched his May 6 flank attack.

Rob Shenk
Wilderness Woods

View of the woods on the preservation target property near Saunders Field in the Wilderness. These forests are more mature than the "second growth" brambles that the Union and Confederate forces encountered in May of 1864.

Rob Shenk
Fire in the Wilderness

Civil War illustration of Union soldiers carrying wounded comrades to safety. Nearby fires are in the background.

Library of Congress
Cannon on Saunders Field

View of a Union gun on Saunders Field on the Wilderness Battlefield. The woods behind this gun marks the beginning of a tract that the Civil War Trust saved in early 2011.

Rob Shenk
Caisson at Saunders Field

View of a Civil War caisson at Saunders Field on the Wilderness Battlefield. In early 2011 the Civil War Trust saved the land behind this caisson - essentially where the woods start.

Rob Shenk
Rebel Breastworks Wilderness Battlefield 1864

Rebel Breastworks Wilderness Battlefield 1864 - a photo of Saunders Field

John Richter
Saunders Field after the Battle

View of Saunders Field after the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness.

National Park Service