Major General Bryan Grimes' Plantation

Attempting the Impossible Again, Bryan Grimes at Appomattox

Lee's Surrender, By My Great Grandfather ======== “On May 12, 1864, the enemy captured the Confederate breast works at the Horseshoe at Spotsylvania Court House, also many guns and two thousand of General Edward Johnson’s men. The gallant General [Stephen Dodson Ramseur] being wounded in attempting to retake the breastworks, Colonel [Bryan] Grimes on his own responsibility, ordered a second charge, himself leading it, and recovered the entire works and all the guns, capturing many prisoners and killing more of the enemy than the brigade numbered men. General Lee himself rode down and thank them, telling them they deserved the thanks of the country- they had saved the army.” House

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