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What an intriguing collection. The young Montgomery's letter is so touching.
By coincidence, last night I read about the movements of Heth's division on May 9, the day on which your young man was wounded. Lee had devised a plan to crush Hancock's 2nd Corps, and sent Heth to move against Hancock's rear as part of a pincer.
It's in Gordon Rhea's The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864, the second in his quadrilogy about Grant's Overland Campaign.
I'm going to re-read those pages, thinking about this letter as representative of all the dying men on both sides.
Patty