The Crater at Petersburg
The Crater at Petersburg
May 8, 2018
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#OnThisDay, July 30, 1864, The Battle of the Crater is fought outside Petersburg. The Union plan to detonate a mine filled with explosives underneath Confederate lines quickly turned into a disaster when Union troops were trapped within the Crater. A combination of untrained troops and absent commanders– notably Brig. Gen. James H. Ledlie, who was reported to be drunk during the battle and well behind the front line– contributed to the Confederate victory. Instead of ending the siege, both sides
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The Battle of the Crater was the American Civil War's biggest waste of life. Unionists attacked Confederate lines during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864. They dug a 511-foot tunnel under the Confederates and loaded it with 8000 pounds of gunpowder. They blew up hundreds of Confederate soldiers and created a massive crater. The Union's leadership made colossal errors. They poured troops into the crater instead of flanking the stricken Confederates. The Confederates regrouped and trapped the Union
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Battle of the Crater - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia
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The Siege of Petersburg lasted 292 days from June 15, 1864, to April 2, 1865, making it the longest siege in American military history. After failing to break through Confederate defenses in a series of initial assaults, Union General Ulysses S. Grant settled into a grinding campaign of attrition against General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The siege featured extensive trench warfare stretching nearly 40 miles around Petersburg, a critical railroad hub 23 miles south of Richmond. B
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