- brevet horse: mule 60. brung: Brought 61. bub: a fellow or guy. 62. bub and sis: Nickname for brother and sister, especially given to children 63. buck and ball: A close range musket load having 3 large buckshot bound on top of a .69 caliber, smooth bore musket ball, encased in paper.
Often the the name "Bloody Angle" is used to describe the Mule Shoe salient overall, but it originally referred to an angle within the line on the western side of the salient, also known as the "Western Angle." The fighting took place all across the salient that day but the worst was there. Due to the terrain, Grant considered that side of the salient to be the weakest and concentrated the ...
The approximate six pound "Mule Ear" carbine was a single shot .54 caliber breech loading side hammered percussion firing carbine. It was loaded from the top of the breech which was opened by pulling up and back on a hooked handle. As the breech block was opened an internal bolt would be pulled back.
Here are several maps from the Spotsylvania Mule Shoe issue of Blue & Gray magazine (vol. 26, no. 1, 2009) showing where the 16th Mississippi and Harris' Brigade was.
The handler pointed the mule at the empty prairie and then the handler lit the fuse to the loaded Mountain Howitzer on the back of the mule. The mule had never heard the sound of a "spitting and sputtering" burning fuse before, and started to buck and try to run off. The handler tried to regain control of the mule- of the bucking and turning mule.