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OLD COLD HARBOR

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

Smith) corps, and was brought to a standstill in eight minutes . An order from army headquarters to renew the attack was ignored by the
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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
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hour's fighting, the greater
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part in the few minutes of the actual assault . In the constant fighting of 31st of May to 12th of June on this ground Grant lost 14,000 men .

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