The Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864 was one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. Thomas Wunz honors the Union dead with a vignette:
The Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864 was one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. Thomas Wunz honors the Union dead with a vignette:
Wow. Now that is good.
Grant, who ordered the attack on the Confederate trenches, later admitted that it was the only attack that he ever regretted ordering. The bodies laid so thick, he said, that you could walk across the field stepping just on bodies.