Show the bloody angle may 12 1864 li H EN fought from the top of heaps of dead men till their own b bodies dies were added to the pile alla find and others c came a me to take their places not a tree 0 or r a sapling ft was as left alive an and standing bstanding one tree nearly two feet fe tin in diameter was wa s literally cut in tavo two by musket balls so the historian elson speaks of the fighting in the bloody angle at the battle of Spottsyl Spott sylvania vanla may 12 1864 the battle he goes on wits was one of the most tremendous of modern times nad had it continued another day it would 41 1 d i P V the battle was one of the most tre of modern times have surpassed gettysburg neither side won the losses about the same on each side footed up the frightful total of men the bloody angle which elson describes Is known to british military historians as the salient it was an almost octagonal bulge in lees battle line protecting Spottsyl vanla court house lk manned lanned by the remnant stonewall jacksons veteran foot cavalry it was overwhelmed when ilan iian cocks federals swept over the breastworks in the mists of dawn disordered by the excitement of their own success the union forces were nt at once attacked and re rent attacked tacked by lee the result was the deadliest fighting of the civil war and from it came grants stubborn message to washington 1 I propose to fl fight bt it out on this line if it takes all summer orderly furrows have replaced the ominous breastworks in some parts of the battlefront and farm farni produce Is growing where once death swept by yet a great part of the bloody angle field is marked almost ns as clearly as on the day when thousands of valiant men were killed within and on either side of the sector the tren trenches chet which were partly filled and which later served as the burying ground tor for thousands still are plainly visible trees have grown up in the years that have passed but they have served only to lend a softening touch to the view of therow the row of rifle pits in advance of 1 f the front line the ammunition holes the supporting trenches and the gun em placements which general lee built when SPott Spottsyl sylvania vanla court house was the wedge in the federal line held by the confederates at the tip of till this wedge now stand three small granite monuments ng as tributes to the bravery of the new york new jarsey and ohio regiments that were mowed down by buckshot and kinle balls from the guns of lees men the bloody angle Is now a peaceful breastwork covering four acres and has been given to the united states by sir mr and mrs rdward edward T stuart of 0 philadelphia through their gene generosity it becomes therefore w what hat fl i should be a part of americas holy hoi ground new york evening post |