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The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes more simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania (or the 19th-century spelling Spottsylvania), was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War.
A part of Nathan Kimball's brigade during the September 1862 Maryland Campaign, the 7th West Virginia took part in the attack on the Sunken Road ("Bloody Lane") at Antietam. Following the battle, the regiment helped garrison Harper's Ferry until the end of October, when it marched through the Loudoun Valley to Falmouth, Virginia .
The Bloody Angle (Gettysburg), an area of the Gettysburg battlefield of the American Civil War (1863) The Bloody Angle (Spotsylvania), an engagement at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House of the American Civil War (1864) "The Bloody Angle", a section of Doyers Street (Manhattan) in New York City's Chinatown
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ... Spotsylvania Court House May 12–21. Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle," May 12. ... 14 enlisted men killed or mortally ...
Morton's Ford February 6–7. At and near Stevensburg until May. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3 – June 15. Battles of the Wilderness May 5–7; Laurel Hill May 8; Spotsylvania May 8–12; Po River May 10; Spotsylvania Court House May 12–21. Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle," May 12. North Anna River May 23–26.
At Spotsylvania Court House, the brigade was on the left flank of the "Mule Shoe" salient, in the part of the line known as the "Bloody Angle", where Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps launched a massive assault. All but 200 men of the brigade were killed, wounded, or were among the 6,000 captured Confederates following the bloody hand-to-hand ...
In the next battle, Spotsylvania Court House, he declared "I shall come out of this fight a live major general or a dead brigadier." When the "Mule Shoe" (or "Bloody Angle") was overrun and most of Major-General Allegheny Johnson's division was captured on May 12, 1864, units from the Third Corps—including Perrin's Brigade—were called in to ...
Battle of the Wilderness May 5–7, 1864; Battle of Spotsylvania May 8–12, 1864; Battle of the Spotsylvania Court House May 12–21, 1864 Assault on the Salient, "Bloody Angle," May 12, 1864 North Anna River May 23–26, 1864 On line of the Pamunkey May 26–28, 1864 Totopotomoy May 28–31, 1864 Battle at Cold Harbor June 1–12, 1864