Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A locality in eastern Virginia east-northeast of Richmond. Confederate forces defeated Union troops here in two Civil War battles (1862 and 1864).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An inn.
- n. A protection at a wayside for travelers who are benighted or benumbed with cold.
Examples
“It has been ascertained since that Meade's conclusions were correct in so far as they related to the enemy's infantry; but the five cavalry brigades far outnumbered my three, and it is to be regretted that so much was risked in holding a point that commanded the roads to Cold Harbor and Meadow bridge, when there was at hand a preponderating number of Union troops which might have been put into action.”
Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
“The bridges with which we were concerned at and after Cold Harbor were the Federal military bridges,”
“For the second time now Cold Harbor has become a battle-ground.”
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
“W. W. Kirkland had fallen at Cold Harbor with an injury that would involve long absence from his North Carolinians.”
“No time was to be lost, therefore, if the advantages which possession of Cold Harbor gave us were to be improved, so at the same hour that Meade ordered me to hold the place at all hazards the Sixth Corps was started on a forced march, by Grant's directions, to aid in that object, and on arrival to relieve my cavalry.”
Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
“Jackson approached Cold Harbor from the north, his divisions in column on one road as follows: Ewell's, Whiting's, Lawton's”
“To delay them, Breckinridge and his 2,100 men were started from Cold Harbor for Lynchburg, whence they could move to the upper Valley or dispute a crossing of the Blue Ridge.13”
“* So called by General Lee, though designated by subordinate commanders as the battle of Cold Harbor or Gaines 'Mill, according to the part of the ground on which their commands fought.”
“Torbert having pursued toward Cold Harbor the troops he fought at Matadequin Creek, had taken up a position about a mile and a half from that place, on the Old Church road.”
Fictionaut: She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
“Cold Harbor in which he suffered very heavily, there were repeated attacks on Rodes 'and Heth's fronts, those on Cook's brigade, of Heth's division, being especially heavy, but all of them were repulsed.”
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