Historian and author Gordon Rhea discusses the Battle of Cold Harbor and the impact that this battle had on the American Civil War. The Civil War Preservation Trust and its partners have helped to save 59 acres of this 1864 Civil War battlefield. http://www.civilwar.org/coldharbor | American Battlefield Trust

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The Battle of Cold Harbor (May 31-June 12, 1864) stands as one of the Civil War's most lopsided engagements. Near Richmond, Virginia, Union General Ulysses S. Grant ordered repeated frontal assaults against entrenched Confederate positions commanded by Robert E. Lee. On June 3, the main Union assault lasted less than an hour but cost approximately 7,000 casualties against Confederate losses of only 1,500. Grant's forces achieved nothing—no territorial gain, no tactical advantage. Exhausted from