Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, American Civil War Finish:Rolled by Alexander Marcet

by Alexander Marcet

with the bag containing the Great Seal of England and the parliamentary silver mace

20 April 1917

Testudo imbricata Linn

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

Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia, American Civil War Finish:Rolled by Alexander MarcetBattle 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.