Walking Upton's Charge - Spotsylvania Court House Tour | Overland 160 

This video is part of our series commemorating the 160th Anniversary of The Overland Campaign. You can view the full series here: • The Overland Campaign ... #spotsylvaniacourthousetour
After a Southern victory at Laurel Hill, Union forces selected a young colonel from New York named Emory Upton to lead an attack against the fortified Confederate muleshoe salient. The strategy and style of the charge would later be used in the trench warfare of World War I.
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