May 12th 1864 Bloody Angle

[Nounan]

Took a week long tour of battlefields last month. Here are some pictures of what applys for today's date. Spotsylvania and the Bloody angle.

 

[kel1985]

I've been down there a few times, one of my favorite battlefields to visit. Thanks for sharing.

 

[bdtex]

Thanks for the post and pictures. This member thoroughly appreciates posts about the battles. I have not made it to Spotsylvania yet but it is very high on my CW bucket list.

 

[Nounan]

Thanks for the post and pictures. This member thoroughly appreciates posts about the battles. I have not made it to Spotsylvania yet but it is very high on my CW bucket list.

I will keep adding, I spent 9 days and hit Shilo, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga /Chattanooga, Cold Harbor, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Fredricksburg, Mannasses. It was legit!

 

[AUG]

Thanks for the reminder!

"We halted in a pasture and broke ranks. Then came the reaction. All moved by the same impulse, we sat down on the wet ground and wept. Not silently, but vociferously and long. Officers and men together. Some of the boys had been at outs with one another. They made friends and deplored the times that they ever held an unkind thought against one so true and brave. Two fellows, both named Bill, who never could get along together, rushed into each other's arms, begging for forgiveness and swearing undying friendship. We washed our hands and faces in pools of rain-water. We were covered with bloody mud from head to foot. Soon we got rations of corndodger and fried bacon, but not a man could eat."
- David Holt, 16th Mississippi Infantry, A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia.