. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . and file, but the Sixth Corps, although commanded by Sedg-wicks most trusted lieutenant, General H. G. Wright, an able and gaUant $ Upton was promoted the next day by telegraph to be brigadier-general — an honor he had more than once deserved.—M. T. McM. 213 214 COLD HARBOR. ress had beenby the enemytion than ever,which haddrawn in theeoninieneed amovement to-ward the Pam-unkey, a riverformed by thejunetionof theNorth Annaand the SouthAnna. Thepassage ofthat river hadbeen complet-
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . and file, but the Sixth Corps, although commanded by Sedg-wicks most trusted lieutenant, General H. G. Wright, an able and gaUant $ Upton was promoted the next day by telegraph to be brigadier-general — an honor he had more than once deserved.—M. T. McM. 213 214 COLD HARBOR. ress had beenby the enemytion than ever,which haddrawn in theeoninieneed amovement to-ward the Pam-unkey, a riverformed by thejunetionof theNorth Annaand the SouthAnna. Thepassage ofthat river hadbeen complet-ed on May 28,and then, af-ter three daysof marching,interspersedwith the usu-al amount offighting, thearmy founditself againconfronted byLees main soldier, seemed like an or-phaned household. Warrensand Hancocks fight at NorthAnna had been fierce butineffective, resulting only inslaughter, of which, as usual,a sadly disproportioned sharewas ours. The crossings of theNorth Anna had been forced[see map, p. 136], but our prog-barred as beforein stronger posi-The three corpscrossed had with-night-time and had. Confederate positions at the North Anna and at Cold Harbor, with the route of march of Ewells corps to the latter place. By Jed. Hotcnkiss, Top. Eng., Second Corps, A. N. V. line on the Totopotomoy. The operations which followed were known asthe battle of Cold Harbor. On the afternoon of May 31st Sheridan, who was on the left flank of thearmy, carried, with his cavalry, a position near the old well and cross-roadsknown as Old Cold Harbor, and, with his men dismounted behind roughbreastworks, held it against Fitzhugh Lee until night. To this point, dur-ing the night, marched the vanguard of the Army of the Potomac, the COLD HARBOR. 215 Sixth Corps, under Wright, over roads that were many inches deep in night was sultry and oppressive. Many of our horses and mules weredying of thirst, yet they had to be forced through streams without haltingto drink. Frequent messe
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