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Tag Archives: 96th Pennsylvania
Preservation News: June 1, 1864 at Cold Harbor
Recently the Civil War Trust announced an effort to preserve land related to the June 1, 1864 fighting at Cold Harbor. This combat has often been overshadowed by the Union assault which took place there on June 3. Cold Harbor … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Common Soldier, Leadership--Federal, Memory, Personalities, Preservation
Tagged 121st New York, 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 51st North Carolina, 5th Maine, 95th Pennsylvania, 96th Pennsylvania, Army of Northern Virginia, Army of the Potomac, Battle of Cold Harbor, Battle of Spotsylvania, Elisha Kellogg, Emory Upton, Horatio Wright, Mule Shoe Salient, Richard Anderson, Robert E. Lee, Robert Hoke, Thomas Clingman, Ulysses S. Grant, William "Baldy" Smith, XVIII Corps
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From the ECW Archives: The Union Assault at Cold Harbor June 1, 1864
All through the night of May 31 and into June 1, 1864, Horatio Wright’s VI Corps trudged along the dusty and choked Virginia byroads. They had been pulled from the Union right flank and ordered to march to reinforce and relieve … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Civil War Events, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Monuments, Personalities
Tagged 121st New York Infantry, 2d Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 5th Maine, 95th Pennsylvania, 96th Pennsylvania, column assault, Emory Upton, George G. Meade, Horatio Wright, Lee's Last Line, Mule Shoe Salient, North Anna River, Old Cold Harbor, Philip Sheridan, Richard Anderson, Spotsylvania, Theodore Lyman, VI Corps, William "Baldy" Smith, X Corps, XVIII Corps
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