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Cold Harbor

American  

noun

  1. a locality in Virginia, NE of Richmond: Civil War battle in 1864.


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It requires him to complete the Cold Harbor file, the final step of Lumon’s shrouded ploy to create multiple innies of Gemma.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2025

What exactly Cold Harbor is isn’t entirely clear yet, either, but we do know it’s a major MDR project with implications that are above the Innies’ pay grade.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2025

Chernow even makes the case that the battle most associated with Grant’s murderous reputation, Cold Harbor, was a key part of a larger, strategically essential, and victorious campaign.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2017

There’s one at Cold Harbor National Cemetery in Mechanicsville, Va., that’s made of stone, not brick.

From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2016

The end of the war had appeared to be so near and now, after the horror of the Wilderness and Cold Harbor, there must be a siege of Petersburg.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt