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As y'all will recall, by the end of the last episode, the Confederates on the morning of June 1, 1864,

had stumbled badly attempting to carry out what Robert E. Lee had hoped would be a successful

counterattack against the Yankees who held the vital crossroads at Cold Harbor. Exactly.

And by the end of that action, it was obvious Lee's counterstroke had fizzled. But, fortunately for the rebels, the

Federals were having troubles of their own. Horatio Wright's Sixth Corps reached Cold Harbor at mid-morning,

and by one o'clock that afternoon, had taken the place of Sheridan's Union Cavalry in the hasty breastworks the troopers had thrown

up north and west of the crossroads. But Baldi Smith's 18th Corps was still toiling toward the

battlefield under the blistering Virginia Sun. And Smith had been delayed, incredibly, by orders that had misdirected him,

not once, but twice. As y'all will recall, 18th Corps, after being pulled out of the federal's

Bermuda 100 lines, was going to link up with the Army of the Potomac. And after disembarking at White House landing,

Baldy Smith had found orders that instructed him to march his command to Newcastle

up the Pamunkey River in the vicinity of Hanovertown.

Smith got his men most of the way to that objective on May 31st, encamped for the night,

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