The Mule Shoe

Spotsylvania

The Mule Shoe

One portion of the Confederate trenches jutted out from the main line and formed a semi-circle salient resembling the shape of a mule shoe. At the top of the shoe the trenches curved back toward the main line at the “East Angle,” the edge of the tree line in the center of this image.

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Captain William J. Seymour, staff officer, Monaghan’s (Hays’) Brigade:“Just at dawn of day, there suddenly burst upon our startled ears a sound like the roaring of a tempestuous sea; the woods before us fairly rang with the hoarse shouts of thousands of men.... Some moments elapsed before we could see a single Yankee, when suddenly the enemy poured out of the woods in front of our right, and marching obliquely to the left (our right), reached the broad open field in front of Jones’s Brigade.  Never have I seen such an exciting spectacle as then met my gaze.  As far as the eye could reach, the field was covered with the serried ranks of the enemy, marching in close columns to the attack.”  Seymour’s memoirs The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger, as quoted in Voices of the Civil War: The Wilderness, page 123

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