135 The Civil War: North Anna and Cold Harbor

In this episode we continue our coverage of Grant's overland
campaign. After the wilderness and Spotsylvania Grant continued
to move south with Lee moving in concert with him. After being
stopped at North Anna, Grant continued south and wandered into
the battlefields of McClellan's campaign in 1862. Grant and Lee
met again at a place called Cold Harbor. Lee entrenched. Grant
attacked. While Grant would recognize that it was a mistake to
attack, for Grant's critics, Cold Harbor was synomous with his
new nickname, 'butcher Grant'. I weight the evidence and conclude
that Grant's failures at Cold Harbor can't be seen in isolation
with the other battles of the Overland campaign. Take a listen!


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