The Long Way
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What a strange route for their trip to Cold Harbor! (see red/white and lavender dashes)

Was Colonel Gibson directed to take this route or was it determined by him?

How would you have gone from the green spot to the red spot?

First they marched from green to yellow - then to the Potomac to board their ships.

They wasted more time by not disembarking at the pink, blue, or orange spots.

Notice the route taken on land (lavender dashes) from brown spot to red spot.

They arrived two days late even after a grueling pace of 20 miles over land on some days.
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