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 in America in so brief an action. Placed by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society.
Marker is on Cold Harbor Road (Route 156), on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
