JUNE 8, 1864:
The Battle of Cold Harbor (Day Nine):
Exchanges
of gunfire and artillery mark this day at Cold Harbor. Grant is sequestered
with Meade and his other commanders, calculating the next move in the Overland
Campaign. Conditions in the trenches continue to deteriorate.
Immediately
after his renomination, President Lincoln announces his support for a
Constitutional Amendment banning slavery. The Republican Convention also endorses the
“unconditional surrender” of the Rebels as the only acceptable resolution of
the war.
The New York Times, ever friendly to
Lincoln, editorializes: "The country may rely, with unfaltering trust,
upon the supreme devotion of the President to the defence of the Government and
the suppression of the rebellion."
In Mount
Sterling Kentucky, John Hunt Morgan’s raiders defeat a small Union garrison.
For good (or bad) measure, they rob the town bank. It says much of the state of
the Confederacy that even Morgan’s disciplined strike force is being reduced to
brigandage.
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