>>> daniel davis and philip greenwald got the 1864 battle of cold harbor that took place during the civil war. this program is next on booktv. >> there is a sense of doom, cold harbor. in the battle for the first time with my dad making our way along the park road thrown around to federate entrenchments that there was a certain sense of foreboding. it still persists today 150 years later we see the images after the war for the battlefield on the hurricane that the heavens and we read the words such as thomas hyde in the army of the potomac.