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After the stalemate at Wilderness, Grant didn't retreat but managed to advance s undetected towards Richmond outbalancing Lee's Army, which was forced to hastily follow in order to check the menace. They succeeded in intercepting the Federal at Spotsylvania by the skin of the teeth, but there was any opportunity left for a retaliation.

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