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Battle of Cold Harbor, (May 31–June 12, 1864), disastrous defeat for the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–65) that caused some 18,000 casualties.
As Union forces advanced toward Richmond in the spring of 1864, Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army repulsed and outmaneuvered Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s troops at Cold Harbor in a devastating two-week action that cost more than 17,000 lives. How it ended. Confederate victory.
3 Ιουν 2020 · On June 3, 1864, Federal soldiers waited anxiously to assault the seven-mile-long Confederate line near Mechanicsville, Virginia. The largest engagement of the battle of Cold Harbor was about to take place. Unbeknownst to them, they attacked at different places at differing times.
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Major General William Smith’s VIII Corps attacks the first line of Confederate rifle pits at Cold Harbor. Battlefield sketch by Edwin Forbes. The fighting spilled over to the defenders’ side of the fortifications. The contest was a grim one, but the Federals retained the advantage.
2 Ιουν 2014 · At the Cold Harbor crossroads, Lee had won what the rebels considered the easiest victory of the war. It would be his last. For the 10 months remaining in the conflict, Grant would never again...
The Battle of Cold Harbor was fought during the American Civil War near Mechanicsville, Virginia, from May 31 to June 12, 1864, with the most significant fighting occurring on June 3.
