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

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

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by Gordon C. Rhea (Author)

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 Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 552
Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.02 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: April 01, 2007
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