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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM191I_fatal-mistake-at-the-east-angle_Spotsylvania-VA.html
The sharp turn in the Confederate works here is called the "East Angle." It marks the apex of the Muleshoe Salient and was one of the most vulnerable points on Lee's line. Lee fortified the place heavily and placed upwards of 30 cannon in and arou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM191H_the-toughest-fight-yet_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Artist Alfred R. Waud sketched these Union soldiers under fire here on May 12, 1864. Lee's counterattacks had driven the Union troops out of the Muleshoe, and here they are shown under cover on the outside of the Confederate trenches. Waud's persp…
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/HM188D_pennys-tavern-site_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Nearby stood Penny's (Penney's) Tavern, named for Lincefield Penney who purchased the site in 1811. The tavern catered to travelers making their way to the old Spotsylvania courthouse site (1781-1837), located approximately one mile north of the t…
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