How the Battle of Cold Harbor began. By then, the Civil War was more than three years old, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians had died on its battlefronts.

NOT WAR BUT MURDER:Cold Harbor 1864By Ernest B. FurgursonKnopf, 328 pages, $27.50A recurring theme of literature on the Vietnam War is the premonition of death shared by soldiers too numerous to ...

Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant suffered horrendous losses at Cold Harbor, but he continued to press the fight against Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. It earned Grant a measure of respect among his men.

The National Museum of the Civil War Soldie… Historian Gordon Rhea discussed the Civil War Battle of Cold Harbor, Confederate Gen. Lee's last major victory and a bloodbath for the Union army.

Civil War June 1864: Gruesome battle of Cold Harbor, Lincoln renominated, submarine built here, Petersburg siege begins and Springfield's "Gallant Tenth" comes home Published: May. 30, 2014, 1:18 p.m.

From the window of her childhood bedroom, Frances Carmack can see trenches where soldiers fought and died during the Civil War. On particularly rainy days, artifacts from that period would ...

This is part of an Associated Press series on the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War. Read about the AP's upcoming four year journey of exploring the historic war. Not everyone feels caught up in ...

In addition to Civil War reenacting, Frank is a member of the Mahoning Valley Civil War Round Table. The Battle of Cold Harbor featured Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant versus Confederate Gen. Robert E ...

LITCHFIELD>> American Legion Post 27 honored soldiers and families who died in the Battle of Cold Harbor during the Civil War in full costumes on Saturday in Litchfield. The Reverberations is to ...

During the Civil War, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside (right) read a newspaper at his camp at the Woody Farm in the Cold Harbor area of Hanover County.

Today’s Army generals are more worried about roadside bombs than cannonballs, more familiar with Humvees than horses, but they can still learn from 1864. That was the sense Tuesday after doze… ...