The Battle of Cold Harbor

The Civil War was fought from April twelfth eighteen sixty one to April ninth eighteen sixty five between the union free slave states also called “the north” or “Yankees “and lesser known as “federals”, and the confederate slave states or the “rebels” and better known as “the south”. The country split and erupted into a war that was fought over tariffs, the slave trade and states’ rights, specifically the right to protection of property as written in the constitution but the south was mainly concerned to their protection of slaves as property. The southern half of the country succeeded for fear that Lincoln; the newly elected president would free their slaves and fought against each other in a series of battles all fought nearly the same except for one.

The battle of Cold Harbor was fought on May thirty first and lasted until June twelfth eighteen sixty four and its nickname being “bloody hell” since it was the bloodiest battle of the civil war, resulting in a slaughter of over fifteen thousand five hundred casualties on both sides. It’s also called the second battle of cold harbor because some accounts say that actually The Battle of Gaines mill was the first Battle of Cold harbor in eighteen sixty two. There are records from some highly disturbed union soldiers who were digging trenches who found skeletal remains of fallen soldiers from this war two years prior since both wars were fought over the same ground.

The battle of Cold Harbor took place in Hanover County Virginia, Cold Harbor despite its name Cold Harbor isn't a port, and in fact it was the last rebel line in defense of the capital. Grant was confident that he would win because he had ended prisoner exchange and Sherman had destroyed the Georgia farmlands he kn...

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...the country." They may have won the battle of Cold Harbor but we had won the Civil war. They say we won but they won’t tell you what we lost. But that’s the thing with war nobody really wins, you just fight until the last man killing over six hundred thousand soldiers and the ones left alive can’t fight anymore and surrender.

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