Re: Starz v.s. Showtime. movie channels except for HBO (for original series) are a waste of money. They show the same movies over and over.
The Battle of Cold Harbor was a major defeat for the Union. The North suffered about 13,000 total casualties to the South's approximately 2,500. Morale was low; the troops were tired. Even Grant seemed depressed.
The preceding six weeks had seen the bloodiest fighting in the Civil War so far, at the carnage-strewn Virginia battlefields of The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. War, at the best, is terrible, Lincoln told the crowd, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and duration, is one of the most terrible. . . .