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MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · June 3

THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 3

June 3 in history

1864 — 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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