David Wilson
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- Apr 30, 2019
I'm looking for more material to read. I have read back and forth over William Matter's account in "If It Takes All Summer". I am trying as best I can to reconstruct what happened there from accounts. As I mentioned in other posts my Great-Great Grandfather John Larrish was captured there along with many others from the Pennsylvania 50th Infantry.
For those who interested but not familiar: On the afternoon May 12th 1864 both Grant and Lee ordered afternoon attacks in an area just east of the Mule Shoe where on that morning the horrific clash known as the Bloody Angle had just taken place. Neither side was aware that offensives were going to take place simultaneously in the same area. The Confederates had advanced East from their lines then Northward through a forested area after engaging a Union battery. The Federals were moving westward through the forest when they encountered the Confederates on their left flank. In less than hour of close range combat in the forest, over 800 Union soldiers were captured. A group of reenactors from Michigan recently gave tribute to the fallen and captured members of the Michigan 17th with a stone monument where this fight took place.
For those who interested but not familiar: On the afternoon May 12th 1864 both Grant and Lee ordered afternoon attacks in an area just east of the Mule Shoe where on that morning the horrific clash known as the Bloody Angle had just taken place. Neither side was aware that offensives were going to take place simultaneously in the same area. The Confederates had advanced East from their lines then Northward through a forested area after engaging a Union battery. The Federals were moving westward through the forest when they encountered the Confederates on their left flank. In less than hour of close range combat in the forest, over 800 Union soldiers were captured. A group of reenactors from Michigan recently gave tribute to the fallen and captured members of the Michigan 17th with a stone monument where this fight took place.
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