Round 1: Tossup 3
Under the command of Felix Zollicoffer, the 33rd Indiana Infantry Regiment traversed a route with this name at the start of the Battle of Camp Wildcat. During a battle with this name, John Hammond’s cavalry was driven back to Parker’s Store by A. P. Hill. Brigadier General John B. Gordon attacked the Union right flank at a battle with this name shortly after James Longstreet was wounded by his men, pushing Ulysses S. Grant to move troops to Spotsylvania Court House. During the 1864 Overland Campaign, Grant fought Robert E. Lee in a heavily wooded region with this name. A route with this name was blazed for the Transylvania Company through the Cumberland Gap en route to Kentucky. For 10 points, a road blazed by Daniel Boone had what name, indicating its inhospitable nature? ■END■
ANSWER: wilderness [accept Wilderness Road; accept Battle of the Wilderness]
<NS, American History> | Packet A - Brown A, Wisconsin A, Purdue, Maryland B
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