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On the main Confederate line, eight miles long, which crossed the Old Church Road here, the Federal Army made numerous futile and costly charges on June 3, 1864. The heaviest of these were three miles southeastward and were accounted “the worst slaughter of the war”.
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Mechanicsville, Virginia · United States
