On the morning of June 3, 1864, at Cold Harbor, Ulysses S. Grant ordered three corps of the Army of the Potomac to charge entrenched Confederate infantry across open ground. Within twenty minutes the Union army lost approximately seven thousand men killed and wounded. Many of the soldiers had pinned their names and addresses to the backs of their coats before the assault, expecting not to come back. Grant wrote in his memoirs years later: "I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made." It was the costliest twenty minutes of any Federal infantry charge in the war. The six-figure set is the charge in mid-stride: mounted officer at the center on a brown horse with sword raised high, urging the line forward, and five Federal infantry running with bayonets leveled. Regulation Union dress throughout — dark blue frock coats, sky-blue trousers, mixed headgear of Hardee hats and forage caps. Stage the charge against a defending Confederate line — set it opposite Confederate Infantry Firing and Loading in entrenched position, with Mounted General Grant directing the assault from the rear, or face it head-on against the matching Confederate Infantry Charging for a meeting engagement. Tradition of London model 0901. 54mm scale (approximately 1/30), white metal, hand-painted in gloss enamel. Six-piece set: mounted officer with raised sword plus five charging Union infantry with bayonets fixed and leveled, in regulation Federal dress on classic painted bases. Supplied in the Tradition Classic Red Box. Allow 2–3 weeks delivery.
