BGuthrie Photos: VA -- Cold Harbor Natl Battlefield

VA -- Cold Harbor Natl Battlefield:

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1. COLD_180602_12.JPG: Cold Harbor: The Early Actions On May, 31, 1864, while the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia fought along Totopotomoy Creek, four miles to the north, Federal and Confederate cavalry gravitated toward the Old Cold Harbor crossroads. Following their victory along Matadequin Creek the previous day, the Federal troopers of Gen. Alfred T. A. Torbert's division pushed toward the important intersection from the east. Finding Old Cold Harbor defended by Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry division, plus elements of Gen. Thomas Clingman's infantry brigade, Torbert's men attacked and captured the intersection. With the crossroads in Federal hands, and reinforcements for both sides on the way, the ﬁghting at Cold Harbor had just begun. This section of the battleﬁeld saw significant ﬁghting on May 31, 1864, and for several days afterward. Confederate and Federal attacks took place over this ground on June 1, as both sides fought to gain advantage at Cold Harbor. On June 3, Federal soldiers of the 18th Corps pushed off from here in Gen. Grant's effort to break the Confederate line. Behind you is modern Beulah Church, rebuilt to replace the wartime structure that burned during the battle. Hand-to-hand ﬁghting at Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864, was just one of many very compelling moments in the famous battle.
2. COLD_180602_19.JPG: June 3, 1864 -- 18th Corps: A Disastrous Attack General John H. Martindale's division of the 18th Corps deployed on this ground prior to its participation in the Federal attack on the morning of June 3, 1864. At 4:30 a.m., the roughly 3,400 men of the division advanced toward strong Confederate earthworks, approximately 1,000 yards in front of you. Charging into concentrated rifle and artillery ﬁre, Benjamin Hett of the 12th New Hampshire recalled, "The men went down in rows, just as they marched in the ranks..." Martindale's division absorbed perhaps the most complete defeat of the day and suffered 1,043 casualties. "Everything is quiet... such occasions as this... try men's nerves. Every face was more or less pale, but all had a determined look. Thus we stood, all ready for the charge... it seemed a long time to me, for at such a time with men's nerves strained to their utmost tension, a minute seems an hour." -- George Place, 12th New Hampshire Infantry General Martindale led a brigade when the Union army fought around Richmond in 1862. Just two years later, he commanded a division at Cold Harbor. This aerial photograph shows the ground that Martindale's two brigades had to cross on June 3, 1864. The Union soldiers advanced into fire that converged from three directions. The green lines indicate preserved battleﬁeld land.
3. COLD_180602_21.JPG: General Martindale led a brigade when the Union army fought around Richmond in 1862. Just two years later, he commanded a division at Cold Harbor.
4. COLD_180602_26.JPG: This aerial photograph shows the ground that Martindale's two brigades had to cross on June 3, 1864. The Union soldiers advanced into fire that converged from three directions. The green lines indicate preserved battleﬁeld land.
5. COLD_180602_30.JPG: The Armies Gather at Cold Harbor Afternoon -- June 1, 1864 Following the Federal cavalry's successful defense of the Old Cold Harbor Crossroads against Confederate infantry attacks on the morning of June 1, 1864, hard marching soldiers of the 6th Corps and 18th Corps arrived to solidify the Union army's hold on the strategic intersection. By late afternoon these two corps, totaling roughly 30,000 men, launched an attack against the Confederate line. The 18th Corps deployed around Beulah Church and attacked to the west. Brig. Gen. William T. H. Brooks' division advanced across this ground under ﬁre, toward Confederates defending hastily built earthworks 600 yards ahead of you. Fighting raged into the darkness that night. The Federal assault on the afternoon of June 1, 1864, temporarily broke the Confederate line and emboldened General Grant to try another assault at Cold Harbor on June 3. Combat artist William Waud sketched the June 1 action in this vicinity.
6. COLD_180602_44.JPG: Combat artist William Waud sketched the June 1 action in this vicinity
Wikipedia Description: Battle of Cold Harbor
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The Battle of Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. Thousands of Union soldiers were slaughtered in a hopeless frontal assault against the fortified troops of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Grant said of the battle in his memoirs "I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made. I might say the same thing of the assault of the 22d of May, 1863, at Vicksburg. At Cold Harbor no advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained."
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