During the bloodiest day of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, over 15,000 Union soldiers in General Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps assault the Confederates lines. The Confederate line, shaped like a mule shoe, became known as the "Bloody Angle" as Union and Confederate soldiers battled without break for 20 hours.
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