May 2017 Civil War Calendar by Mort Kunstler.
"Spotsylvania, Va, May 12, 1864.
"General Ulysses Grant's 1864 invasion of Virginia seemed unstoppable -- until Grant ran onto Robert E. Lee's rock-hard defense at Spotsylvania Courthouse.
"One section of Lee's line was in the shape of a mule shoe and defied repeated attacks by courageous Northern troops. Finally, struggling mightily in the rain, Northern troops broke through the Confederate line.
"Desperate moments followed until a Confederate counterattack drove back the attackers. The fighting was among the bloodiest of the war.
"With only a log and earthen wall separating them, combatants shot, stabbed and clubbed each other for almost eighteen hours until darkness ended the ordeal."
Hand-to-hand action over the earthworks and shot-up flags from both sides and in all that rain.
I've always had a problem with spelling Spotsylvania. Is it one or two "t's"
A Place I Definitely Would Not Want to Be. --Old Secesh
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