A Tempest of Iron and Lead: Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864 (Chris Mackowski - NR)) 35178 Visitors and readers quickly learn

Visitors and readers quickly learn that the former were eventually interred in the National Cemetery

with the stakes higher than they’ve ever been before

With the war in Europe winding down in the spring of 1945

or a name on a marble headstone

The little known history of General George Armstrong Custer and his wife

A Tempest of Iron and Lead: Spotsylvania Court House, May 8-21, 1864 (Chris Mackowski - NR)) 35178 Visitors and readers quickly learnby Chris Mackowski May 1864. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame. No one could imagine a more infernal battlefield. Then they marched down the road to Spotsylvania Court House. Even the march itself was unprecedented. For three years, the armies had fought and disengaged. That changed on the night of May 7. Instead of leaving