Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864

Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign--which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War--vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the stalemate on the North Anna River through the Cold Harbor offensive. Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864 showcases Rhea's tenacious research which elicits stunning new facts from the records of a phase oddly ignored or mythologized by historians. In clear and profuse tactical detail, Rhea tracks the remarkable events of those nine days, giving a surprising new interpretation of the famous battle that left seven thousand Union casualties and only fifteen hundred Confederate dead or wounded. Here, Grant is not a callous butcher, and Lee does not wage a perfect fight. Within the pages of Cold Harbor, Rhea separates fact from fiction in a charged, evocative narrative. He leaves readers under a moonless sky, with Grant pondering the eastward course of the James River fifteen miles south of the encamped armies.

Author: Gordon C. Rhea
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 552
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.00w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780807132449
ISBN10: 0807132446
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military | United States

About the Author
Gordon C. Rhea is the author of On to Petersburg: Grant and Lee, June 4-15, 1864; The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864; The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864; and To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, among other books. He lives in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.