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Photographer: Craig Swain
Taken: May 3, 2009
Caption: Spotsylvania Tree Stup
Additional Description: Until May 12, 1864, this shattered stump was a large oak tree in a meadow outside Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia. That morning, 1,200 entrenched Confederates, the front line of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, awaited the assault of 5,000 Union troops from the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Twenty hours later, the once-peaceful meadow had acquired a new name, Bloody Angle. The same fury of rifle bullets that cut down 2,000 combatants tore away all but twenty-two inches of the tree's trunk.
Submitted: June 15, 2009, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.
Database Locator Identification Number: p67331
File Size: 0.959 Megabytes

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