Word: spottsylvania
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Reader Phillips is correct-but only up to a point. The coinage was Grant's. The general first used the line in a wartime letter written from Spottsylvania on May 11, 1864: "I am now sending back to Belle Plain all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions and ammunition, and purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer...