American Civil War: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spotsylvania_Court_House" id="mwpw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Spotsylvania Court House">Battle of Spotsylvania Court House</a>: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with some of the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.<sup about="#mwt49" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_12#cite_note-8" id="mwqA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwqQ">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt46" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFKrick2010">Krick, Robert K. (2010). "An Insurmounable Barrier Between the Army and Ruin: The Confederate Experience at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle". In Gallagher, Gary W. (ed.). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bqBcwt_axSUC" id="mwBcQ" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBcU">The Spotsylvania Campaign</i></a>. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. pp.<span id="mwBcY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>80–81. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBcc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBcg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780807871324" id="mwBck" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780807871324"><bdi id="mwBco">9780807871324</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt46" class="Z3988" id="mwBcs" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=An+Insurmounable+Barrier+Between+the+Army+and+Ruin%3A+The+Confederate+Experience+at+Spotsylvania%27s+Bloody+Angle&amp;rft.btitle=The+Spotsylvania+Campaign&amp;rft.place=Chapel+Hill%2C+N.C.&amp;rft.pages=80-81&amp;rft.pub=University+of+North+Carolina+Press&amp;rft.date=2010&amp;rft.isbn=9780807871324&amp;rft.aulast=Krick&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert+K.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DbqBcwt_axSUC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+12"></span></span>