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On June 2, 1864, the night before the grand assault at Cold Harbor, Union staff officers moved among the battle lines issuing orders. In this vicinity, Major Horace Porter witnessed a scene of foreboding as soldiers in one regiment removed their coats and appeared to be sewing rents, but on closer examination were calmly writing their names and addresses on slips of paper and pinning them to the backs of their coats so their bodies could be recognized on the field and their fate made known to their families at home. Porter regarded such courage as more than heroic, calling it sublime.
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