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Title: History of the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, prepared from official records, diaries, and other authentic sources of information
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928
Subjects: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 87th (1861-1865)
Publisher: York, Pa., Press of the York daily
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ir guns, at what became historically knownas the Bloody Angle at Spottsylvania. At 6 a. m. the 6thCorps came up. The service it now rendered was of the high-est importance. It relieved the 2d Corps on the right of thesalient, and Hancock formed on the left of the angle. At 8 a. m. the 5th and 9th Corps were ordered to make a gen-eral attack, and relieve Hancock and Wright. It resulted in aheavy loss. Lee seemed determined to recapture the line,wrested from him, and throughout the day, made five heavy as-saults, each one of which was repulsed. Of all the struggles ofthe war to regain a strategic position, this was the fiercest andmost deadly. At times so close was the contest that rivalstandards were planted on opposite sides of the same breast-works. With a heavy force the enemy still made a determinedeffort to retake the famous salient, which became in truth anangle of death. It presented a spectacle, ghastly and terrible.After twenty hours of combat, Lee finally drew back his bleed-
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— 137 — ing lines at midnight. The loss on the Union side that day wasnearly 8,coo, in killed, wounded and missing. The loss on theConfederate side, was never definitely made known but it wasvery heavy. The greatest number of casualties on this eventful day to theUnion army was in the 2d Corps, and in the 1st Division of the6th Corps, now under command of General Russell. The 1st Brigade under Colonel Schall, although it was contin-ually engaged in fighting, skirmishing and throwing up breast-works, in face of the enemy, had comparatively few casualtiesin the Spottsylvania campaign. From May 8 to May 21 thebrigade lost 149 men in killed, wounded and missing. Duringthe attack on the enemys works on May 12, Henry Ensinger,of Company A, while lying on the ground in the battle line, waskilled by the explosion of a conical shell. Christian Househol-der, of Company C. Charles Howie, of Company I, WilliamDenues, of Company A, were wounded. It had rained all day of May 12, while musketry

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