Some detail concerning Upton's May 10 assault, the precursor to the Mule Shoe assault is covered. The remaining 2/3 is devoted, in great detail, to the Mule Shoe attack. The development of the plans, positioning of the troops and the assault itself are covered down to the regimental level. Personal accounts are plentiful.
Riding Morgan's Mule: A form of punishment in which the prisoner was forced to sit on, or straddle, a large sawhorse for hours at a time. The rail on which they sat was sometimes 15 feet above the ground and accessible only by a ladder. If the prisoner joked about needing spurs, bricks were...
Thought this was an excellent account of Col. Emory Upton's charge on the Mule Shoe salient at Spotsylvania, . From the diary of Clinton...
On this day, May 12, 150 years ago one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War occurred. At 4:35 am this morning the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock launched a major assault on the tip of the Confederate salient named the "Mule Shoe" for its U shape...
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 ...
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