This assignment can be used as the basis of a class discussion on the battle of Cold Harbor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in an 1897 speech called "The Soldier's Faith" said:
The faith is true and adorable which leaves a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.
Explain the meaning of the above quote.
Who is the author and what was his experience with war?
How does this quote reflect the experience at Cold
Harbor?
Support with evidence from the documents.