Cold+Harbor+BL4

=**__//Grant Meade Lee  COLD HARBOR //__**= Frankie Herr and Ryan Knox

 8. Confederate victory 9. Casualties- 13,000 Union, 2,500 Confederate 10. Impact of the battle (how this battle impacted the war overall) [|Google]
 * 1) Cold Harbor
 * 2) May 31-June 12, 1864
 * 3) Hanover County, Virginia
 * 4) Union- Ulysses S. Grant, George G. Meade, Confederate- Robert E. Lee
 * 5) Troops- Union-108,000, Confederate- 62,000
 * 6) On May 31 Sheridans Calvalry seized the crossroads of Cold Harbor. Early on June 1 they relied on there new repeating carbines and shallow entrenchments. They held back an attack by confederate infantry. Confederate reinforcements arrived from Richmond. On June 1 the Union and XVIII corps reached Cold Harbor and assaulted the works with some success. By June 2 the armies were on the field. Forming a seven mile front that went from Bethesda Church to the Chickahominy river. On June 3 the II and XVIII corps assaulted along the Bethesda Church line and was slaughtered. On June 15 the rest of the army crossed a 2,200 ft long bridge at Weyanoke. Abandoning the well defended approaches to richmond.
 * 7) The veterans of smith captured the first line of riflepits and 600 men. General Grant had ordered a redisposition of his army making hancock form the right. Burnside was withdrawn from the front and placed on the right and rear of Warren. It was determined to force the passage of the chichahominy to the next morning and compel Lee to seek safety in the fortifications around richmond.