Heart of Hell
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Battle of North Anna
Battle of Spotsylvania
Battle of the Wilderness
Bloody Angle
Bloody Angle's oak tree
bloody earthworks
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Civil War rifles
Civil War salient
Confederate entrenchments
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Doles's Salient
Emory Upton
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frontal attacks
Heth's Salient
John B. Gordon
Landrum house
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McCoull house
Mule Shoe
Overland Campaign
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Po River
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Richard S. Ewell
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Rodes
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Spotswood Hotel
Spotsylvania Campaign
Spotsylvania Court House
Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle
Spotsylvania's Laurel Hill
Ulysses S. Grant
Upton's attack
Wilderness of Spotsylvania
Winfield Scott Hancock
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- ISBN 9781469668420
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 160 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jul 2022
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War. A Union assault that began at 4:30 A.M. on May 12, 1864, sparked brutal combat that lasted nearly twenty-four hours. By the time Grant's forces withdrew, some 55,000 men from Union and Confederate armies had been drawn into the fury, battling in torrential rain along the fieldworks at distances often less than the length of a rifle barrel. One Union private recalled the fighting as a "seething, bubbling, soaring hell of hate and murder." By the time Lee's troops established a new fortified line in the predawn hours of May 13, some 17,500 officers and men from both sides had been killed, wounded, or captured when the fighting ceased. The site of the most intense clashes became forever known as the Bloody Angle.
Here, renowned military historian Jeffry D. Wert draws on the personal narratives of Union and Confederate troops who survived the fight to offer a gripping story of Civil War combat at its most difficult. Wert's harrowing tale reminds us that the war's story, often told through its commanders and campaigns, truly belonged to the common soldier.
Here, renowned military historian Jeffry D. Wert draws on the personal narratives of Union and Confederate troops who survived the fight to offer a gripping story of Civil War combat at its most difficult. Wert's harrowing tale reminds us that the war's story, often told through its commanders and campaigns, truly belonged to the common soldier.
Jeffry D. Wert is author of many previous books, including most recently Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation.
