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15 Jun 2020 10:30 p.m. PST

… Founding of Arlington National Cemetery

"AT 4:35 A.M. on May 12, 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant launched an assault against the center of General Robert E. Lee's line just outside the strategic town of Spotsylvania Court House.

The deployment of Lee's forces at this location jutted outwards, resembling a "mule shoe," a feature also referred to by the men as the "salient." The fighting here on May 12 would be nonstop for nearly 24 hours.

At the western angle of Lee's fortifications—forever remembered as the "Bloody Angle"—the contest was especially murderous. On the morning after the slaughter at the Bloody Angle, a reporter covering the war for the New York Times wrote:…"
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