Summary: | Bloody Angle, Spotsylvania Battlefield, Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1961-1980. Caption reads: "Bloody Angle, Spotsylvania Battlefield, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Va. Here, May 12, 1864, in an area ever after known as Bloody Angle, was fought the most savage, long-sustained, hand-to-hand engagement of the Civil War. The fighting continued with unabating fury from 6 a.m. till 3 a.m., next day, when the exhausted Confederates withdrew. Visitor center is in Fredericksburg. National Park Service." Postcard number: 20749. |
Creator: | Miller, Walter H. |
Provider: | Walter H. Miller & Company, Inc. |
Century: | 1901-2000 |
Place of origin – Continent: | North America |
Place of origin – Country: | United States of America |
Place of origin – Region: | Virginia |
Place of origin – Settlement: | Williamsburg |
Temporal subject: |
1961-1970
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1971-1980
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Geographical subject – Continent: | North America |
Geographical subject – Zone : | Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park |
Geographical subject – Country: | United States of America |
Geographical subject – Region: | Virginia |
Geographical subject – Settlement: | Fredericksburg |
Topical subjects: | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Battlefields |
Parks |
Monuments & memorials |
Genre: | Postcards |
ArchivesUM location: | Institute of American Deltiology postcard collection |
Repository: | National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection |
Browse terms: | Architecture, Landscape, Historic Places |
War, Military |
Collection: | National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection |
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