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soldier, seemed like an or-phaned household. Warren’sand Hancock’s fight at NorthAnna had been fierce bidineffective, resulting only hislaughter, of which, as usual,a sadly disproportion! sharewas ours. The crossings of theNorth Anna had been forced[see map, p. 136], but our prog 1 'barred as beforein stronger posi-lie three corpscrossed had with'nigl lt-time and had

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ress had beenby the enemytion than ever,which haddrawn in thecommenced amovement to-ward the Pam-unkey, a riverformed by thejunction of theNorth Annaand the SouthAnna. Thepassage ofthat river hadbeen complet-ed on May 28,and then, af-ter three daysof marching,interspersedwith the usu-al amount offighting, thearmy founditself againconfronted byLee’s main

line on the Totopotomoy. The operations which followed were known iWthe battle of Cold Harbor.

On the afternoon of May 31st Sheridan, who was on the left Hank ofarmy, carried, with his cavalry, a position near the old well and cross-r <)a<known as Old Cold Harbor, and, with his men dismounted behind rongbreastworks, held it against Fitzlmgh Lee until night. To this point, ch] 1ing the night, marched the vanguard of the Army of the Potomac, ' tl

Confederate positions at the North Anna and at Cold Harbor, with the route ofmarch of KwcII’h corps to the latter place. Hy Jed. ITotelihiss,

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