Results for Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle of Cold Harbor
The left of Lee's line at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, cross...
Battle of Cold Harbor
Flag of Truce
On 5 June 1864, two hot days after Gen...
Battle of Cold Harbor
Position of the Confederate Left Wing
On the main Co...
Battle of Cold Harbor
Main Line of Anderson’s Left Wing
The Confederate ea...
Battle of Cold Harbor
The Confederate Main Line
Here Longstreet’s Corps, w...
Battle of Cold Harbor
The Field of the Heaviest Losses
This was approximat...
Results for Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle of Cold Harbor
The left of Lee's line at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, crossed the road here. The main battle took place to the east, where Grant attacked Lee's trenches without success.
Marker is on Mechanicsville Turnpike (U.S. 360) 0.1 miles east of ...
Battle of Cold Harbor
Flag of Truce
On 5 June 1864, two hot days after Gen. Robert E. Lee's bloody repulse of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's frontal assault, Federal Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman met Confederate Maj. Thomas J. Wooten nearby on Cold Harbor Road to ...
Battle of Cold Harbor
Position of the Confederate Left Wing
On the main Confederate line, eight miles long, which here crossed the Old Church Road, the Federal Army, June 3, 1864, made numerous futile and costly charges. The heaviest of these were three miles southeastward ...
Battle of Cold Harbor
Main Line of Anderson’s Left Wing
The Confederate earthworks here crossing this road were occupied May 31 – June 12, 1864, by the Left Division “Fields” of the First Corps. Then commanded by R.H. Anderson. Heavily attacked on June 3, this ...
Battle of Cold Harbor
The Confederate Main Line
Here Longstreet’s Corps, with Breckinridge and A.P. Hill’s Corps to the southward, repulsed on June 3, 1864, fourteen assaults from the East against the confederate main line. The federal losses, about 7000, were the heaviest ever sustained ...
Battle of Cold Harbor
The Field of the Heaviest Losses
This was approximately the farthest point gained and held by the Federals in their assaults of June 3, 1864 on the Confederate main line, 130 yards to the west. The heaviest losses sustained by the ...
