Aftermath

Aftermath (HM191M)

Location: Spotsylvania, VA 22553 Spotsylvania County
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 13.384', W 77° 36.035'

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The Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse

At 2 a.m. on May 13, 1864, General Lee declared a new line of works a half mile behind you ready, and the Confederate troops in the trenches here quietly withdrew. They had bought the Confederacy what it most needed that day: time. But every minute had come at a fearful cost. It's likely that as many as 17,000 men fell killed or wounded in the fighting at the Muleshoe Salient. It was the longest sustained combat of the Civil War.

"Piles of the dead" is often used as a figure of speech, but in the works abandoned by the rebels piles of dead literally and without exaggeration were lying in the compartments.... Two, three and four deep, tangled-up with each other, bodies and limbs intertwined, actual heaps of dead, their black and bloated faces upturned to the sky, in all manner of positions and decomposition already polluting the atmosphere with a horrible stench. It was such a picture of war, horrid war, as few people, even those who make a business of war, are permitted to witness. It would take the pen of a Victor Hugo to faithfully describe such a scene of death and carnage, such a hideous and appalling holocaust of human life.
Lieutenant Harvey B. Wells, 84th Pennsylvania Volunteers

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Captain Louis F. Waters of the 99th Pennsylvania Infantry was one of hundreds of Union soldiers to die at the Bloody Angle.

In June 1865, a burial party interred many of the Union dead at Spotsylvania Court House. These graves belong to soldiers killed in front of the Bloody Angle.

Details

HM Number	HM191M
Tags	US Civil War
Placed By	Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park
Marker Condition	No reports yet
Date Added	Monday, October 6th, 2014 at 5:33am PDT -07:00

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UTM (WGS84 Datum)	18S E 272350 N 4233762
Decimal Degrees	38.22306667, -77.60058333
Degrees and Decimal Minutes	N 38° 13.384', W 77° 36.035'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds	38° 13' 23.04" N, 77° 36' 2.10" W
Driving Directions	Google Maps
Area Code(s)	540
Closest Postal Address	At or near 200-204 Grant Dr, Spotsylvania VA 22553, US
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