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In the rainy gloom of May 12, 1864, Brigadier General Samuel McGowan's brigade of South Carolinians fought their way into disputed earthworks near the apex of the Muleshoe Salient. For eighteen hours, the 1,300 South Carolinians held these works against relentless attacks by thousands of Federals, at times in hand-to-hand combat. By the end of the battle, 451 men of the brigade were killed, wounded, or missing, and the slight angle in the works they defended became forever known as the Bloody Angle.
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Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia · United States
