06-07-2009, 12:45 PM
A recent addition for my "reading corner".
It's a CW print called "Bloody Angle".
May 12, 1864.Union Col. Oliver Edward's brigade, identified by the white crosses on their caps, smashes into Confederate Gen. Robert Rode's Virginians at the west angle. Union soldiers try to top the fallen log while Confederates fire from behind it.
Eighteen hours of the most savage and bloody combat ensued. For sheer brutality and awful loss of human life, Spotsylvania was the Verdun or the Stalingrad of the American Civil War
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Erwin