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

In his gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 Overland campaign — which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War — Gordon Rhea vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers from the North Anna stalemate through the Cold Harbor offensive. Once again Rhea's tenacious research elicits stunning new facts from the records of a phase oddly ignored or mythologized by historians. The Cold Harbor of these pages differs sharply from the Cold Harbor of popula...