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Colonel
Emory Upton received permission to lead an assault on a
flank of the Mule Shoe, and at 6:00 p.m. he led his hand-picked 12
regiments across a wooded ravine, following an old road that the
defending Confederates had considered impassible terrain for
organized assaults.
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This road leads from the Union lines, through a
wooded ravine that separated the lines, and that the confederate
line apparently had not screened properly with pickets, since they
considered a charge could not come from this direction.
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The actual route of the road Upton and his men
followed, through a ravine that would look about the same then as it
does now. Keep an eye out for deer!
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The road on the other side of the ravine begins to
climb slowly, then rises up rapidly to the edge of the woods.
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At the edge of the wooded ravine, this monument
marks where Colonel Upton and his 5,000 men rushed out of the trees
and across a few hundred feet of open space, and over the
Confederate defense works.
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Click here
for the larger picture.
This is a close-up of the monument, commemorating
the units that attacked with Upton on ones side, and the Confederate
defenders on the other. At the top of the ridge just past the
monument were the earthworks they stormed rapidly across.
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