Question About Official Records

[Philip Leigh]

Grok provides the following concerning a dispatch from Assistant War Secretary Charles Dana to War Secretary Stanton on June 3, 1864.

Here is the exact dispatch from Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana, sent from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac on June 3, 1864, at 6:30 p.m.—just hours after the disastrous Union assault at Cold Harbor:

"The assault this morning was unsuccessful and attended with heavy loss to us. Our men were not only repulsed but driven back in confusion. The attack was made in columns, and the enemy's fire was so destructive that many of our men were killed before they had fired a shot. The loss is estimated at 3,000 to 4,000. The morale of the army is seriously affected by this failure. The men are discouraged and the officers despondent. General Grant is deeply mortified and says he wishes he had never made the assault."

Source:
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series I, Volume 36, Part 1, pp. 230–231 (U.S. War Department, 1891).

The cited source gives me this instead:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146037/m1/259/

Can anyone help?

 

[RedRover]

Grok provides the following concerning a dispatch from Assistant War Secretary Charles Dana to War Secretary Stanton on June 3, 1864.

Here is the exact dispatch from Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana, sent from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac on June 3, 1864, at 6:30 p.m.—just hours after the disastrous Union assault at Cold Harbor:


Source:
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series I, Volume 36, Part 1, pp. 230–231 (U.S. War Department, 1891).

The cited source gives me this instead:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146037/m1/259/

Can anyone help?

Here are the notices Gen. Dana sent to the War Department on the 3rd and 4th of June. They are on pages 87-89, of the Official Records, Ser. 1, vol. 36, part 1...

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[Stryker65]

Grok provides the following concerning a dispatch from Assistant War Secretary Charles Dana to War Secretary Stanton on June 3, 1864.

Here is the exact dispatch from Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana, sent from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac on June 3, 1864, at 6:30 p.m.—just hours after the disastrous Union assault at Cold Harbor:


Source:
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series I, Volume 36, Part 1, pp. 230–231 (U.S. War Department, 1891).

The cited source gives me this instead:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146037/m1/259/

Can anyone help?

Generally, never trust whatever Grok or any other "generative" AI tells you. It's "generative" exactly in that way -- it's taking tons of material and generating a new response from it. What it gave you was probably a mishmash of half a dozen reports.

 

[BCS1973]

Grok provides the following concerning a dispatch from Assistant War Secretary Charles Dana to War Secretary Stanton on June 3, 1864.

Here is the exact dispatch from Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana, sent from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac on June 3, 1864, at 6:30 p.m.—just hours after the disastrous Union assault at Cold Harbor:


Source:
Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series I, Volume 36, Part 1, pp. 230–231 (U.S. War Department, 1891).

The cited source gives me this instead:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146037/m1/259/

Can anyone help?

This is what I find from Dana about June 3. Pages can toggle forward and back at the bottom. I don't see what Grok is talking about.

https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/067/0087