MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · May 21
THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 21
May 21 in history
1864 — Spotsylvania
8–21 May 1864 — Two weeks of entrenched slaughter; at the Bloody Angle, men fight hand-to-hand for twenty hours in the rain. Grant to Washington: “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
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