num_pages: 552
description: 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.
language: English
title: Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864
titlecomplete: Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864
genres: American, Civil War, Civil War History, Civil War Eastern Theater, Nonfiction, American History, Military History, Military Fiction, American Civil War, History
ratings_count: 309
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Richard Barksdale Harwell Book Award
publisher: Louisiana State University Press