Cold_Harbor_BL3

=**Cold Harbor: **= by: Kierstin McDonald


 * 1) The battle is called Cold Harbor, but is also known as Second Cold Harbor.
 * 2) The battle took place from May 31 to June 12, 1864.



3.The battle took place at Hanover County, Virginia. 4. The officers in charge for the Union Army were Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. The officer in charge of the Confederate Army was Gen. Robert E. Lee.



5. There were 170,000 total troops. 108,000 total for the Union and 62,000 total for the Confederates. Some of the Union's Army Corps were VI, XVIII, II and XVIII. 6. The Union had seized the point Cold Harbor. On June 1, the confederates tried to recapture Cold Harbor, but it was unsuccessful. Union reinforcements arrived and had a little success in advancing. On June 2, both the Union and Confederate armies were on the seven mile battle field(field and thin line of trees) from Bethesda Church to the Chickamauga  River. 7. Grant ordered his II, XVIII, and later IX Corps to move to the Bethesda Church-Cold Harbor line at dawn on June 3. Many were killed. 8. The Confederates won the Battle of Cold Harbor because they took many of the Union's soldiers lives at all the points on the Bethesda Church-Cold Harbor line. 9. There were 15,500 total causalities. The Union Army had 13,000 causalities and the confederate army had 2,500 causalities. 10. The Battle of Cold Harbor was considered General Lee's last great victory. Lee and his troops never completely recovered from all of Grants continuous attacks. The battle did not have that much of an impact while the battle was taking place, but it did after it was over. === Sources:       === ====    __[|http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/bystate.html]  __  ====  __http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/va/va062.html<span style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);">  __  <span style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);"> __<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);"> [|http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/battle-cold-harbor.htm] http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1864.html __
 * At dawn on June 3, the II, XVIII and IX corps were assaulted and killed on the line at most points. It was said that within twenty minutes 10,000 Union soldiers were killed while only 1,000 Confederate soldiers were killed. They were well sheltered by works(a military defense structure). Grant wished that he had never ordered the attack. Both armies fought against each other on this line until June 12, when Grant moved his left flank to march to the James River to threaten the South again.