The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (Jeffry D. Wert - CWC) Section- Prisoners and POW camps Harold Baumgarten

Harold Baumgarten

and when love could heal all wounds

arguing instead that the soldier vote in the presidential election of 1864 is not a reliable index of the army's ideological motivation or political sentiment

Luther’s letters are also important because they offer deep insight into a man grappling with the hardships and sacrifices of war service

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The Heart of Hell: The Soldiers' Struggle for Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle (Jeffry D. Wert - CWC) Section- Prisoners and POW camps Harold Baumgartenby Jeffry D. Wert The struggle over the fortified Confederate position known as Spotsylvania's Mule Shoe was without parallel during the Civil War. A Union assault that began at 4: 30 A. M. on May 12, 1864, sparked brutal combat that lasted nearly twenty four hours. By the time Grant's forces withdrew, some 55,000 men from Union and Confederate armies had been drawn into the fury, battling in torrential rain along the fieldworks at distances often