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COLD HARBOR, OLD

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 664 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLD HARBOR, OLD and NEw, two localities in See also:Hanover See also:county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., 10 m. N.E. of See also:Richmond. They were the scenes of a See also:succession of battles, on May 31–June 12, 1864, between the See also:Union forces under command of See also:General U. S. See also:Grant and the Confederates under General R. E. See also:Lee, who held a strongly entrenched See also:line at New Cold Harbor. The See also:main Union attack on See also:June 3 was delivered by the II. (See also:Hancock), VI. (See also:Wright), alid XVIII. (W. F.

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Smith) See also:corps, and was brought to a standstill in eight minutes. An See also:order from See also:army headquarters to renew the attack was ignored by the See also:officers and men at the front, who realized fully the strength of the hostile position. These troops lost as many as 500o men in an See also:hour's fighting, the greater See also:part in the few minutes of the actual See also:assault. In the See also:constant fighting of 31st of May to 12th of June on this ground Grant lost 14,000 men.

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