THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 3
June 3 in history
What happened on June 3: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1864, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Cold Harbor
3 Jun 1864 — A frontal assault on entrenchments loses several thousand men in under an hour — the attack Grant said he most regretted. The armies slide south to Petersburg and dig: the Western Front, fifty years early.
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