May 8, 1864---The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House begins

MAY 8, 1864:     

The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House   (Day One): 

In what became a two week-long running series of bloody battles between Federal and Confederate troops, elements of General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia manage to occupy the crossroads of Spotsylvania Court House scant minutes before The Army of The Potomac arrives. Although both sides are beaten and bloody after the The Battle of The Wilderness, Grant engages Lee ferociously. For the next fourteen days or so, excepting in the hours of darkness and merciful bad weather, men will die or descend into madness amidst the slaughter in their thousands in ceaseless and brutal engagements all around the region of central Virginia.