Cold Harbor
Information about Cold Harbor in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1865-05-31, Washington Daily National Republican; Virginia battlefields from the Wilderness to Richmond are to be surveyed
1865-06-08, White Cloud (Kan.) Chief; details of colored troops are busy burying Union soldiers at the Richmond battlefields. Notes that “several hundred” skeletons were interred near Cold Harbor.
1865-07-19, Washington (DC) Daily National Republican; interesting letter from a young woman describing the conditions and popular sentiment in Richmond at this time; describes the Fourth of July Celebration in Capitol Square
1866-03, The Cosmopolite, “Reminiscences of A Southern Hospital. By Its Matron.” Part 3
1866-04-25, New York Herald; description of General Grant’s visit to Richmond – staying in the Spotswood and visiting battlefields.
1866-05-08, Cold Harbor National Cemetery has been dedicated by a flag-raising. Cemetery is “on the farm of Mrs. Slaughter”
1866-05-08, Richmond Dispatch; brief description of the dedication of the Cold Harbor National Cemetery – notes that it is situated on the “farm of Mrs. Slaughter.”
1866-08-11, Richmond Dispatch; detailed list of reinterments of Union dead at the various national cemeteries – Belle Isle, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Seven Pines, Fort Harrison, Hollywood and Oakwood included
1867-03-29, Richmond Dispatch; list of National Cemeteries and numbers of dead interred. Richmond Nation Cemetery is noted as “not completed”
1867-05-20, Richmond Dispatch; General U. S. Grant and party are in Richmond, staying at the Spotswood Hotel. Party visited Cold Harbor yesterday

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