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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6N4_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 12, 1864. About 6 a.m. Wright's VI Corps advancing to support Hancock's attack occupied the area in front of the Confederate works on the west face of the Salient. Here at a slight bend in the line, the area ever after known as the Bloody Angl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6N3_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 12, 1864. Union commanders Grant and Meade determined to exploit the Confederate "Mule Shoe." Early in the morning they sent Hancock's II Corps against the apex of the Salient (300 yards east). Hancock took the trenches on either side of the a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6N2_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
This road leads to the Landram House ruin. In the days of the Civil War it was a small whitewashed dwelling built of squared logs and heated by stone-chimneyed fireplaces. From similar modest homesteads, North and South, had spring Abraham Lincoln…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MW_uptons-charge_Spotsylvania-VA.html
(Front):Sixth Corps Memorialto the brave anddaring men whofought in Upton's ChargeMay 10,19645 Me - 96 Pa. - 121 N.Y.5 Wis - 6 Me - 49 Pa.119 Pa. - 77 N.Y. - 43 N.Y.6 Vt. - 5 Vt. - 2 Vt. (Back):ConfederateMule Shoe Defenders1 Ramseur2 Dan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MV_doles-salient_Spotsylvania-VA.html
These gentile mounds are all that remain of the formidable earthworks held by George Doles' Georgia Brigade. The trenches running perpendicular to the main line are called traverses and made these works appear like a series of three-sided roofless…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MT_spotsylvania-campaign_Spotsylvania-VA.html
May 10, 1864. Here along the west face of the Confederate Salient, or "Mule Shoe," Dole's Brigade of Ewell's II Corps had been alert all afternoon. At 6 p.m., when Federal cannonading ceased, it seemed the day would end quietly. Then Upton's regim…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MQ_mccoull-spring_Spotsylvania-VA.html
This spring has always been important to the McCoull family but on May 12, 1864 it became a vital source of rejuvenation to hundreds of Confederates involved in the fighting at the Bloody Angle. Colonel Charles S. Venable, an aide-de-camp to Lee, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MP_the-mccoull-house_Spotsylvania-VA.html
This was the home of farmer Neil McCoull and his unmarried sisters Mary, Eliza, and Milly. McCoull's farm was typical of those that dotted Spotsylvania County: a few hundred acres that produced a modest income from corn and other grains. Like his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MO_mayhem-in-the-muleshoe_Spotsylvania-VA.html
Surrounded on all sides by low ridge lines, Neil MccCoull's house sat in the center of the famous Muleshoe Salient. On the night of May 8, 1864, Confederate engineers built the bulging line of earthworks that wrapped around McCoull's farm to the w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6MM_ramseurs-brigade_Spotsylvania-VA.html
2nd North Carolina State TroopsCol. William R. Cox 4th North Carolina State TroopsCol. Bryan Grimes 14th North Carolina TroopsCol. R. Tyler Bennett 30th North Carolina TroopsCol. Francis M. Parker At dawn May 12, 1864 Union troops over…
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