Why didnt the army of potomac retreat after the battle of the wilderness?

Anonymous

∙ 13y ago

Updated: 8/19/2019

ANSWER

Because Grant decided to maintain the initiative towards Lee, breaking the contact and advancing southward in direction of Richmond.

By so doing Grant outbalanced Lee, who succeeded, but for a hair's breadth, to intercept the army of Potomac at Spotsylvania.

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