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It's the only place in his great two-volume memoir
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when he used the word regret,
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and he really regretted Cold Harbor.
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At Cold Harbor, Grant had misinformation.
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He somehow did not understand how much
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of Lee's army had actually concentrated in front of him
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and somehow he mis-saw the landscape.
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He didn't realize
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that Lee's army on each flank had a river,
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And those rivers were pretty high, it was May/June,
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and there was no way to flank him.
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So he just made, on the 3rd of June,