"BATTLE OF COLD HARBOR The Confederate Main Line Here Longstreet's corps, with Breckinridge and A.P. Hill's corps to the southward, repulsed on June 6, 1864 fourteen assaults from the east against the Confederate main line. The Federal losses, about 7000, were the heaviest ever sustained in America in so brief an action. Placed by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society."
According to records shown to me by a guide at Cold Harbor, two of my great-great grandfathers (48th Virginia Infantry, C.S.A.) fought at a location behind this row of trees.
Wilcox's Landing: Site of one of the Army of the Potomac's James River corssings June 14 - 15, 1864. (There are no modern bridges at the sites of Grants James River Crossings.)
The James River
Crossing the James today: I snapped this photograph by sticking my camera up through the sunroof of the car while driving across the bridge.
Flowerdew Hundred: a museum on the James River at the southern end of the Union pontoon bridge used June 14 - 15, 1864.
