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years after the war, that is filled with literary inventions. i suspect that is one of his many literary inventions. it s true that soldiers of the army of the potomac had done that before in earlier battles. this would be in november of 1863. but there s no evidence that it actually happened here at cold harbor. but everybody knew it was going to be a fierce and terrible day. 4:30 a.m., the signal gun goes off, and this huge union monolith heaves forward. or parts of it do. that s the sad thing about the battle of cold harbor. down on the lower end of the battlefield, general hancock s second corps punches forward. across from them at one spot, they make a breakthrough in a salient in the federal line where general breckenridge is positioned. but lee has a lot of reserves. one myth is that lee did not have reserves, that his line was thin. that s not true. some parts of the confederate line this entire divisions behind them and that was the position on the lower end of ....
i can t remember when i first saw the picture, and i certainly did not know where cold harbor was at the time. i m sure i thought it was a port town somewhere in virginia. i may not remember in which book i first saw the photograph, but i know that immediately and lastingly linked the words cold harbor and death in my mind. in subsequent years, i came to read more about the events of the spring of 1864 that culminated at cold harbor, that deadly slog from the rapid ann to the james that saw the u.s. suffer 50,000 casualties, in the confederacy, another 30,000-plus, the bloodiest six weeks of the war. i learned of the thousands who fell in the early morning on june 3rd. and i do know that there are differing schools of thought about what that number was. i learned that ulysses s. grant would harbor terrible regrets about his decisions at cold harbor to the very end of his days. and i learned that even in a war in which the military and the public had become accustomed to ....
stymied. lee is any a powerful position and grant can t break through. what does he do? maneuvers. he pulled the army of the potomac ought of the wilderness and goes to the spotseslvania courthouse and then lee has to come out from the wilderness and fight him on opened ground. this is a tactical maneuver aimed at pulling lee from his strong entrenchmentes. the army of the potomac shifts south, a drama take point in the war because up to this point, whatever union generals had been trounced in the battle as bad as lee had defeated grant and in the wilderness they always retreated but grant moved south to the court house and lee gets awe finger of his army in front of grant and blocks him and there s brutal fighting in places with names like the mule shoe and the bloody age that will goes on for over a week, will be 10 days and then finally grant realizes he can t break through there so grant maneuvers again. he pulls the union army out from spots vain yeah courthouse an ....
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