Where the Other Sam Found Walt Whitman
November 17, 2009 | Filed Under bloody angle, civil war, findingwhitman, singing myself and others, Uncategorized, videomap
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.