The Battle of Cold Harbor is over, a battle in which Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s Army of Northern Virginia soundly defeats Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s the Army of the Potomac. Union casualties and losses total nearly 13,000, to the Confederates 5,300. Yet Grant, backed by a steady stream of new recruits entering Union…
The Battle of Cold Harbor is winding down. Union General Ulysses S. Grant, unable to penetrate Confederate defenses, is making plans to withdraw and grant a win to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. But Grant is not giving up, as he prepares his forces to cross the James River and push closer toward Petersburg, a…
The Battle of Cold Harbor, now full-fledged trench warfare, continues in Virginia near Richmond. Battle clashes have been replaced with occasional shots from sharpshooters and the whine and explosion of lobbed artillery shells. Heat, dust and a lack of water, food and medical care in the trenches bodes ill for the soldiers in this new…