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Emory Upton, the Bloody Angle, and the Future of War (Grant's Overland Campaign, Part 2)

Emory Upton, the Bloody Angle, and the Future of War (Grant's Overland Campaign, Part 2)

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In today's episode we dive into the grueling Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, a pivotal clash spanning May 8 to May 21, 1864. We'll explore how the relentless Overland Campaign birthed modern military tactics and forever altered the character of the American Civil War. The narrative traces the desperate early race to control the Spotsylvania crossroads, the sudden death of beloved Sixth Corps commander John Sedgwick to a Confederate sharpshooter, and Ulysses S. Grant's steadfast declaration to "fight it out on this line if it takes all summer". At the core is twenty-four-year-old Colonel Emory Upton, who knelt in a Virginia clearing to diagram a revolutionary assault strategy. Bypassing traditional doctrine, Upton led a sprinting, tightly packed column of twelve Federal regiments across two hundred yards of open ground to briefly pierce the supposedly impenetrable Confederate salient known as the Mule Shoe on May 10. We then break down Winfield Scott Hancock's massive dawn attack on May 12, which sparked the legendary horrors of the Bloody Angle. For twenty-two continuous hours in driving cold rain, Union and Confederate soldiers fought muzzle-to-muzzle, resulting in stacked casualties in flooded trenches and a twenty-two-inch oak tree entirely severed by sustained rifle fire. Ultimately, this brutal engagement forced Robert E. Lee to report to Jefferson Davis that the Army of Northern Virginia would be obliged to take a defensive position, signaling the beginning of the Confederacy's long, slow defeat.

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