The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (Jeffry D. Wert - CWC) Section - Calvary Campaign ” Has our free press

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commanding Union Army General George Gordon Meade commandeered the farm to serve as his headquarters due to its centrally located position

Hannah Wheeler has been running her farm and raising her son since the death of her husband in an accident several years ago

--Ralph Peters

Gordon's triumphal march through York

The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (Jeffry D. Wert - CWC) Section - Calvary Campaign ” Has our free pressby Jeffry D. Wert 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