{"id":514,"date":"2019-05-24T21:47:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T01:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larrykooper.com\/?p=514"},"modified":"2019-05-24T21:47:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T01:47:54","slug":"day-3-wheres-everybody-in-richmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/day-3-wheres-everybody-in-richmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3: Where&#8217;s everybody in Richmond?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fredericksburg, VA to Yorktown, VA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cold Harbor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cold Harbor battle, May 31 &#8211; June 12, 1864, was part of what&#8217;s called the Overland Campaign. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-24-at-9.07.42-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-515\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The battle was a Confederate victory. But at this point in the war, Grant&#8217;s aim was to destroy the Confederate armies, not to hold territory. Grant promised to &#8220;hammer continuously&#8221; against Lee and his army until, he said, &#8220;there should be nothing left to him.&#8221; (Source: NPS Visitor Guide to Petersburg 1864\/2014 Sesquicentennial Commemoration)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_8073-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-516\"\/><figcaption>At Cold Harbor: a Civil War earthwork <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The terrain is thickly wooded now, but a park ranger told me it wasn\u2019t during the Civil War \u2014it was farm fields with clear lines of sight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Richmond<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_8082-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-517\"\/><figcaption>Warehouses near the waterfront<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_8085-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-518\"\/><figcaption>The Canal Walk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/capitol-1024x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519\"\/><figcaption>The Virginia State Capitol <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Richmond was eerily deserted. Oh, shit &#8211; I forgot it&#8217;s Memorial Day weekend. I hightailed out of town to the Hampton Roads peninsula. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fredericksburg, VA to Yorktown, VA Cold Harbor The Cold Harbor battle, May 31 &#8211; June 12, 1864, was part of what&#8217;s called the Overland Campaign. The battle was a Confederate victory. But at this point in the war, Grant&#8217;s aim was to destroy the Confederate armies, not to hold territory. Grant promised to &#8220;hammer continuously&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}