. Young folk's history of the war for the union . was little rest thatnight, for the Confederateskept up an almost continualfire, from which some of theUnion men sheltered them-selves by building bullet-proofs in the woods; but the result was that the Union menheld Cold Harbor and thus secured the way to the Chicka-hominy. The next day was spent in getting the troops into positionto force their way across the river. The corps were placed asshown in the map, Hancock being on the left nearest to theChickahominy. Orders were given for an attack at half-pastfour oclock in the morning (Ju
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . was little rest thatnight, for the Confederateskept up an almost continualfire, from which some of theUnion men sheltered them-selves by building bullet-proofs in the woods; but the result was that the Union menheld Cold Harbor and thus secured the way to the Chicka-hominy. The next day was spent in getting the troops into positionto force their way across the river. The corps were placed asshown in the map, Hancock being on the left nearest to theChickahominy. Orders were given for an attack at half-pastfour oclock in the morning (June 3). At dawn every man wasup, and in a few minutes after the appointed time the assaultwas made along the whole six miles of front. But the Confed-erates Avere on the alert, and the storming columns were received * This is sometimes called Cool Arbor, and it is so spelled in the ac-companying map, but most of tlie books give it as in the text. It is said tobe a common name for places along roads in England where shelter with-oxt fire is \ Bl I I ET fROOF 446 GRANT AND LEE. [1864. with a fire which caused a fearful loss in the Union ranks. Thebattle was soon decided; the Confederate works were found toostrong to carry, and the Union men were repulsed at everypoint with great slaughter. Grants loss was more than thir-teen thousand, while that of the Confederates, who fought be-hind their eartliAvorks, was scarcely as many hundred. Laterin the day an order was given for another assault, but the men,ajipalled at the fate of their comrades, whose bodies strewedthe field before them, refused to move. Grant then began to throw up earthworks and to digtrenches to lay siege to Lees position; and for more than aweek the two armies lay opposite each other, the trenches beingso near together that many men were picked off by riflemen.
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