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The “Bloody Angle” is the name given to a piece of ground at the Spotsylvania Courthouse Battlefield on which, in May 1864, some of the war’s most traumatizing hand-to-hand and muzzle-to-muzzle fighting took place.  Whitman would certainly have encountered a number of the men damaged at this site.

Bob Dylan and the expansiveness of Whitmanian influence

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