Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, American Civil War Finish:Rolled 'A Goldfinch and his Mistress'

'A Goldfinch and his Mistress'

Engraved top right 'Tabula 3' J F C Werneburg (1777-1851) was a Professor at the University of Jena

by Alexander Marcet

Porter leans against a nineteenth-century wooden library table with both hands on the table edge

Testudo imbricata Linn

Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, American Civil War Finish:Rolled 'A Goldfinch and his Mistress'Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, American Civil War, 3 June 1864. Union soldiers of Brigadier General John Gibbon's division of Major General Winfield S Hancock's II Corps, repelling an attack by Confederate General Robert E Lee's forces. The battle ended in a Confederate victory with the Union army suffering heavy casualties in frontal assaults against fortified Confederate positions.