Cold Harbor • Tour the Battlefield • Monuments & Markers • The Armies
The portion of the Cold Harbor battlefield preserved by Hanover County Park is about 0.6 mile east of the National Park Visitor Center and just east of and across the street from the National Cemetery.
The park features a one mile walking trail that passes a number of earthworks and several interpretive markers:
Wayside markers
1 – Cold Harbor: June 2 1864
2 – Cold Harbor Battlefield Walking Tour
3 – The Battle of Gaines’ Mill – 1862
4 – A Dreadful Harvest
5 – Federal Artillery Battery
6 – From Farmland to Forest
7 – The Battle Opens
8 – The Bloody Eighth
9 – The Deadly Work of Sharpshooters
10 – Union Reserve Line
Trailside markers
11 – Digging In
12 – Preparation for Battle
13 – Scars of Conflict
14 – A Well Preserved Union Position
15 – Misery in the Trenches