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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
must come out and fight. Whilst I am writing the cannon and musketry are rattling all along our lines, over five miles in extent, but we have become so accustomed to these sounds that we hardly notice them. The weather is beginning to be hot, but I keep in the saddle during the day, and sleep soundly at night. The papers are giving Grant all the credit of what they call successes; I hope they will remember this if anything goes wrong. Headquarters army of the Potomac, 8 A. M., June 4, 1864. I have only time to write you that we had a big battle yesterday. on the field of the old Gaines's Mill battle-ground, with the positions of the contending forces reversed. The battle ended without an decided results, we repulsing all attacks of the enemy and they doing the same; losses estimated about equal on both sides; ours roughly estimated at seven thousand five hundred in all. Battle of Cold Harbor. Federal loss—killed, wounded, and missing—June 2-10, 1864-13,153 (O. R.).