Donna Davis’s Reviews > Bloody Roads South: The Wilderness to Cold Harbor, May-June 1864 > Status Update

Such a rough read! Now I just want it to be over. At least the right side won, in the end.

So much blood.

Cold Harbor

Crossing the North Anna, or trying to. The Confederate dead left behind are skeletal, according to one Union private's journal.

The bayonets, stabbing down into the trenches, or through the abatis. Shooting men in the face! The war begins so politely, and it comes to this. Incredible rates of attrition, and though the author doesn't say so, this is what Grant must do to win, because the Rebels have a much smaller army. Lee gets word that Stuart has died.

Burnside. What a waste.

My god, right now the rebels are kicking ass b/c the Army of the Potomac isn't carrying out its orders. McClellan's legacy, perhaps.

The Army of the Potomac has had enough of retreats, and it's clear now, as one veteran is quoted as saying, that Grant isn't going to send them back, but will lead them to victory.