{"id":2742,"date":"2025-06-05T15:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/?p=2742"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:40:51","slug":"the-battle-of-cold-harbor-june-1864","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/2025\/06\/05\/the-battle-of-cold-harbor-june-1864\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Cold Harbor, June 1864"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find primary source materials on the battle in CAO: <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.library.wcsu.edu\/caoSearch\/catalog?q=%22Cold+harbor%22&amp;search_field=all_fields\">https:\/\/archives.library.wcsu.edu\/caoSearch\/catalog?q=%22Cold+harbor%22&amp;search_field=all_fields<\/a>. The battle was a major loss for the Union in terms of casualties, but marked the end of the Confederate army&#8217;s ability to maneuver in their defense of Richmond which fell 9 months later. Defeat of the Confederate states&#8217; attempt to preserve slavery is commemorated on the Juneteenth holiday (at times it was celebrated as Emancipation Day) &#8211; materials in the CAO regarding Juneteenth may be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.library.wcsu.edu\/caoSearch\/catalog?search_field=all_fields&amp;q=Juneteenth\">https:\/\/archives.library.wcsu.edu\/caoSearch\/catalog?search_field=all_fields&amp;q=Juneteenth<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Surprisingly, a century ago, a representative from the 11th Connecticut returned a flag, captured in the battle to representatives from the Louisiana regiment from whom it had been taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A complicated story: <a href=\"https:\/\/tile.loc.gov\/storage-services\/service\/ndnp\/ct\/batch_ct_floyd_ver01\/data\/sn82014519\/00414219159\/1925061001\/0692.pdf\">Captured Flag Is Returned<\/a> from New Britain Daily Herald, Wednesday, June 10, 1925 (Chronicling America).  Just two months later, 30,000 white supremacist in the KKK marched on Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find primary source materials on the battle in CAO: https:\/\/archives.library.wcsu.edu\/caoSearch\/catalog?q=%22Cold+harbor%22&amp;search_field=all_fields. The battle was a major loss for the Union in terms of casualties, but marked the end of the Confederate army&#8217;s ability to maneuver in their defense of Richmond which fell 9 months later. Defeat of the Confederate states&#8217; attempt to preserve slavery is commemorated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","anons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives-library.wcsu.edu\/cao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}