Spotsylvania
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- proper noun
- /ˌspɒtsɪlˈveɪniə/
- "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
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- 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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A county in northeastern Virginia in the United States known for Civil War battles
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
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'.