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On May 12, 1864, during fighting near the Bloody Angle, Lee’s counterattacks drove Union troops out of the Muleshoe, and Union soldiers took cover on the outside of the Confederate trenches amid the carnage of earlier fighting. From a position just a few feet away, artist Alfred R. Waud sketched this scene under fire in what is the most immediate depiction of the fighting there that day. In his image, the heaviest fighting rages to the right, marked by white smoke at what would become known as the Bloody Angle, while a battle-scarred oak twenty-two inches in diameter stands amid the smoke before later falling, cut down by small-arms fire.
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Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia · United States
