UNIT HISTORIES
have understandably focused mainly on the Union assault of June 3, 1864, that led Ulysses Grant to later declare, “I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made…. No advantage was gained to compensate for the heavy loss.” Yet, as Grant noted, the June 3 attacks were but the last assaults Union forces attempted at Cold Harbor. Two days earlier, units from the 6th Corps had attempted to break the Confederate lines, suffering terrible losses. Included among these was the 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, which belonged to the brigade Emory Upton led into battle that day. While the regiment would subsequently see combat at Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley, it
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