From the Richmond Enquirer, 7/12/1862, p. 1, c. 2
Coal Harbor.
There is some misapprehension in regard to the name of the
locality of one of the most important of the series of the battles lately fought
and won in the neighborhood of this city. A misapprehension not only in regard
to the origin of the name, but to the name itself. Some of our contemporaries
speak of the battle of “Cold Harbor.” This name will be news to the readers of
the “Enquirer;” but Coal Harbor has been familiar to them, as a voting place,
ever since the establishment of precinct elections, and long before the birthday
of the greater number of soldiers who distinguished themselves in the battle of
Friday evening. Coal Harbor is the name, but we do not know the origin.
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