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actually the first attempt was to see
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who could get first to this crossroads
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called Spotsylvania Courthouse,
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and at Spotsylvania
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they fought for about six, seven consecutive days.
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This was the rehearsal for World War One.
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Everywhere the army stopped
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they dug the deepest possible trenches they could.
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And at Spotsylvania, indeed,
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Lee's army got there just before Grant's army
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and they built this incredible trench work
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that was in a u-shape,