National Park Civil War Series: The Battle of Cold Harbor

Company

National Park Service

Price

$12.99

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Official Store

In the late spring of 1864, the American Civil War reached a new level of brutality. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched the Overland Campaign, a relentless series of attacks against General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army, aimed at degrading his forces and capturing the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. This six-week campaign would become one of the war’s bloodiest, culminating in the devastating Battle of Cold Harbor. The Battle of Cold Harbor is recorded as a tactical victory for the Confederacy. The larger Overland Campaign only ended when Grant, having suffered nearly 55,000…