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...