Campaign: Grant’s Overland Campaign.
Date: May 31-June 12, 1864.
Principal Commanders: Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade [US]; Gen. Robert E. Lee [CS].
Estimated Casualties: 15,500 total (US 13,000; CS 2,500).
May 31: Sheridan’s cavalry seizes vital crossroads of Old Cold Harbor.
June 1: Sheridan’s troops repel an attack by Confederate infantry.
Confederate reinforcements arrive.
June 1: Union VI and XVIII Corps reach Cold Harbor and assault Confederate works.
June 3, II, XVIII Corps, and IX Corps, assaulted along the Bethesda Church-Cold Harbor line and were slaughtered.
June 12: Grant advanced by his left flank, marching to James River.
June 14, II Corps ferried across river at Wilcox’s Landing.
June 15, Army began crossing 2,200-foot long pontoon bridge at Weyanoke.
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