Battle of Cold Harbor...

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June 05, 1864

THE NEW YORK HERALD, New York, NY, June 5, 1864

* Battle of Cold Harbor
* Ulysses S. Grant vs. Robert E. Lee
* Civil War original reporting

This Genuine newspaper has a Wealth of Civil War reporting from during Abraham Lincoln's administration.

Among the one column headlines on the Civil War are:

* GRANT
* ANOTHER BATTLE ON FRIDAY
* Assault on the Enemy's Works
* THE BATTLE OF COAL (sic) HARBOR
* Additional Details of the Terrific Conflict on Wednesday
* DEMORALIZATION OF LEE'S ARMY
* The Rebels Deserting in Large Bodies

and more. (see)

Complete in eight pages. This issue is not fragile as newsprint from this era was made of cotton and linen rags, allowing them to remain very pliable and easy to handle. Nice condition.

wikipedia notes: The Battle of Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign during the American Civil War, is remembered as one of American history's bloodiest, most lopsided battles. Thousands of Union soldiers were slaughtered in a hopeless frontal assault against the fortified troops of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Grant said of the battle in his memoirs "I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made. I might say the same thing of the assault of the 22d of May, 1863, at Vicksburg. At Cold Harbor no advantage whatever was gained to compensate for the heavy loss we sustained."

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