Word: spotsylvania
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...repulsing the main attack"; Ulysses Grant, daring, dazzling, slashing through the sleet against Fort Donelson without benefit of orders: 'Wo terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works"; Robert E. Lee, the superb exemplar, bareheaded astride Traveller at Spotsylvania, held back from leading the charge: "General Lee to the rear, General Lee to the rear"; Phil Sheridan, little god of war, red-faced and raging beneath his fork-tailed battle flag along the rutted road to Appomattox: "Now smash 'em, I tell you, smash 'em"; Farragut, fabulous...
...Richmond. With Lee blocking it, the road to Richmond was a series of bloody detours. Never out of contact for more than a few hours in eleven months, Grant's men and Lee's men took bloody swipes at each other in the Wilderness, at Bloody Angle, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor and the Crater. On the Union side, each of these actions was well conceived but rawly executed...