2-494-632 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, American Civil War, 3 June 1864. Union soldiers of Brigadier-General John Gibbon's division of Major-General Winfield S Hancock's II Corps, repelling an attack by Confederate General Robert E Lee's forces. The battle ended in a Confederate victory with the Union army suffering heavy casualties in frontal assaults against fortified Confederate positions.