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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM191G_bloody-angle-crowded-ravine_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Fighting at the Muleshoe Salient focused on a slight turn in the Confederate earthworks, to your right-front, known as the "Bloody Angle." The Angle occupied a small knoll that commanded adjacent parts of the Confederate line. Whoever controlled t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM191F_attack-on-the-muleshoe_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Like Lee, General Ulysses S. Grant recognized the Muleshoe's weakness and made plans to exploit it. On May 12, just after dawn, 20,000 men of General Winfield S. Hancock's Second Corps stormed across the field in front of you—from left to ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM191E_the-muleshoe-salient_Spotsylvania-VA.html
One hundred and fifty yards ahead of you is the Bloody Angle, perhaps the most hallowed site on any Civil War battlefield. The Bloody Angle is a small bend in the Confederate works within the much larger Muleshoe Salient, a huge outward bulge in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM191D_uptons-trail_Spotsylvania-VA.html
By the night of May 8, the Confederate army was in firm possession of Spotsylvania Court House. With Lee entrenching, Grant looked for opportunities to attack. Reports from the front indicated that the Confederates were in force on both their left…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM191B_laurel-hill_Spotsylvania-VA.html
[The] Federal assaults were not only easily repulsed, but the forces making them were simply slaughtered. Private John Coxe, 2nd South Carolina Infantry Before you lies Laurel Hill, one of the most important but least understood areas of the Sp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM191A_the-race-for-spotsylvania-court-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
On the 8th of May we had the hardest march of the war?.as we neared Spottsylvania the rattling of musketry told us too plainly our day's trials were not over?.Sergeant James M. Thompson6th Alabama Infantry After two days of vicious fighting in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1919_the-death-of-sedgwick_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Sedgwick was essentially a soldier. He had never married; the camp was his home, and the members of his staff were his family. He was always spoken of familiarly as "Uncle John," and the news of his death fell upon his comrades with a sense of gri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZSE_the-brown-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Before dawn on May 12, 1864, 20,000 Union troops of General Winfield Hancock's Second Corps slogged into position at the Brown House, one-half mile to your left, preparatory to making an attack on the Confederate-held Muleshoe Salient. Tired from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZSB_union-earthworks_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Early on May 10, 1864, General Gershom Mott's division of 1,500 Union soldiers arrived on this ground and began constructing earthworks amid the harassing fire of Confederate sharpshooters concealed in the timber, just a few hundred yards away. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFST_fighting-for-time_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Throughout May 12, Confederates here waged a battle for critical minutes and hours. When Union troops swarmed over the east face of the Muleshoe Salient before dawn, Robert E. Lee knew instantly that the position - even if regained temporarily - c…
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