Events
General ulysses S. Grant
tells the army of potomac
to head to SpotsylvaniaThe battle ends and
both sides leave
Spotsylvania and head
either south or east to the
North Anna riverGeneral John Sedgwick
commander of the
unions sixth corps
got shot and died which is
the highest ranked officer to
die in the warGrant leads his 20,000
men to the opposite
tip on the salient in
Spotsylvania where
in the morning they
attack the confederates
and when it was all over
there were around 17,000
casualties which this would
be later known as
the "bloody angle."Periods
Spotsylvania
Courthouse
battle
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