. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . •* V OLD COLD HARBOR TAVERN. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH MADE IN 1885. This view is from the south, from the road by -whichthe Confederate left under Stonewall Jackson and D. advanced to attack Porters light. Five roads meetat this point. Old Cold Harbor consists of one or twohouses and a smithy. During the battle of Gainess Millthe tavern was within the Confederate Hues. Two years later, during the bloody engagement of General Grantscampaign, it was within the Union lines. The name
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . •* V OLD COLD HARBOR TAVERN. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH MADE IN 1885. This view is from the south, from the road by -whichthe Confederate left under Stonewall Jackson and D. advanced to attack Porters light. Five roads meetat this point. Old Cold Harbor consists of one or twohouses and a smithy. During the battle of Gainess Millthe tavern was within the Confederate Hues. Two years later, during the bloody engagement of General Grantscampaign, it was within the Union lines. The name issometimes written Cool Harbor, Coal Harbor, or CoolArbor; but Mr. Burnet, the present owner of thetavern, says that family tradition admits only ColdHarbor. — Editors. He thus describes the diffi- Longstreet came into action after 4 oclock,culties before him: In front of me the enemy occupied the wooded slope of Turkey Hill, the crest of which isfifty or sixty feet higher than the plain over which my troops must pass to make an plain is about a quarter of a rude wide ; the farthe
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