Spotsylvania
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- proper noun
- /ˌspɒtsɪlˈveɪniə/
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Batalla de Spotsylvania
- "Grant replies, "I can't fight it out on this line against the rising sun!" These words are a play on his famous statement, "We will fight it out on this line," in a dispatch to Washington during the Spotsylvania campaign...
- Battle of Spotsylvania
- Spotsylvania in 1864
- Spotsylvania Military Park
That was his job, recording the dead and after Spotsylvania, they didn't have enough to be mustered.
- That was his job, recording the dead and after Spotsylvania, they didn't have enough to be mustered.
Examples
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In the face of advancing decay at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, funds for historic masonry repair have been cut 40 percent.
Academic text (2004) -
But with relative ease, he had flown to Honiara, the capital of Guadalcanal, and hiked across the battlefield as if he were visiting Bull Run or Spotsylvania.
Academic text (1990) -
Most of it fought in rainstorms at Spotsylvania when he had it all up.
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He was captured at Spotsylvania, I think.
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That was his job, recording the dead and after Spotsylvania, they didn't have enough to be mustered.
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Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield
Blog text (9) -
Captured at Spotsylvania in 1864, he was sent to a prison at Elmira, New York, where he remained until paroled in March 1865.
Academic text (2009) -
Courtesy of Bo DuBose. Bo and his father Beverly DuBose, Jr., at the site of the Battle of Spotsylvania, holding four of the twenty-two guns they discovered there, along with the metal detector used to find them.
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The Battle of Spotsylvania marked a turning point in the Wilderness Campaign during the Civil War.
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In May 1864, significant casualties occurred during the fierce fighting at Spotsylvania between Union and Confederate forces.
Synonyms
A major American Civil War battle in May 1864 between Grant and Lee
A major American Civil War battle in Virginia in May 1864 between Grant and Lee
Compounds
A major American Civil War battle in May 1864 between Grant and Lee
A major American Civil War battle in Virginia in May 1864 between Grant and Lee
A county in northeastern Virginia in the United States known for Civil War battles
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spotsylvania (the battle) is named after the place Spotsylvania, whose name comes from Spotswood + -sylvania meaning 'woods'. So the battle's name simply points to the area once known as 'Spotswood's woods'.