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Battle of Spotsylvania — Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864 framed declaration The Presidents of the USABattle of Spotsylvania Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864. Eleven days of mud, musketry, and entrenchment rendered in cartographic ink the Overland Campaign's grinding ledger, where Grant refused to recoil and the woods of Virginia absorbed casualties faster than the dispatches could name them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National