The “Bloody Angle” is the name given to a piece of ground at the Spotsylvania Courthouse Battlefield on which some of the war’s most traumatizing hand-to-hand and muzzle-to-muzzle fighting took place in May 1864. Whitman would certainly have encountered a number of those men damaged at the site.
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Finding Whitman
Location : 406 Princess Elizabeth St. Poem: Whoever You Are Now Holding Me in Hand
Finding Whitman
Location : 406 Princess Elizabeth St.
Poem: Whoever You Are Now Holding Me in Hand