The Battle of Cold Harbor is now fully engaged along a seven-mile front. At one juncture, Union forces fiercely attack Confederate defenders, nearly breaking their lines. Elsewhere along the battle front, two small offensive attempts by the Confederates to feel out the enemy fizzle. While the rebels hold their own overall, federal troops end the…
A new battle in the Overland Campaign begins today: Cold Harbor. It will be unlike any fought thus far in the prolonged campaign. Today’s action takes the form of Union Major General Philip Sheridan, traveling ahead of Union soldiers from General Ulysses S. Grant‘s Army of the Potomac, seizing the important crossroads of Old Cold…
In the face of a grinding, drawn-out war in which the North by now has the decided upper hand, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, having been a Baptist in his youth, today composes a letter to three prominent northern Baptists – George B. Ide, James R. Doolittle, and A. Hubbell – offering further reflection on the…