Cold Harbor Syndrome: Balanced, Compelling Study\u27 Examines Grant\u27s Overland Miscalculations

Abstract

Ulysses S. Grant\u27s offensive against Robert E. Lee\u27s entrenched Army of Northern Virginia at Cold Harbor on June 3, 1864, summons powerful images. Northern assaults that day stand alongside Ambrose E. Burnside\u27s attacks at Fredericksburg and John Bell Hood\u27s at Franklin as examples of seemingly poin...