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To: Homer_J_Simpson

We call this one The Battle of the Wilderness.


4 posted on 05/09/2024 6:49:22 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: jimtorr

Yes- “Defeat and Retreat of Lee’s Army”... did not occur.

Spotsylvania occurred with thousands of Union soldiers thrown up against the Bloody Angle and filling up a depression below the defensive line.

And, General Sedgewick killed with one sniper shot from a great distance away by a Confederate with a Whitfield. Just after he loudly laughed at a sergeant nearby for crouching down- saying “they couldn’t hit anything from that distance”. Wrong. A legendary shot that has yet to be credited to the person who made it. Mountain shooting.


6 posted on 05/09/2024 8:42:50 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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