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Once prayed a Rosary on the sprawling Battlefield of Spotsylvania, VA.Considering the number of men who died there, it gave me some purpose and consolation to do this, rather than do the regular tourist walkabout.This battle was a prelude to the modern trench warfare of WWI. General Grant sent so many of his men to their death by "Kamikaze" frontal attacks on General Lee's entrenchments, he earned the name of "Butcher". 
After leaving Spotsylvania, I traveled to DC and drove back through Virgina on I-64 five days later.While driving west on this open leg of Virginia freeway, my smartphone GPS unexpectedly went haywire.I couldn't understand why my map was directing me to go north, up a country road (Hwy 522) ?Later, I realized Hwy 522 led straight to Spotsylvania. Why did my GPS beckon me to go there? I think finally figured it out? The poor souls who died in that battle, who made it to Purgatory, wanted more Holy Rosaries prayed for their intentions.
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