The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, the Civil War's Cruelest MissionThe story of one of the most violent yet least-known episodes of the Civil War — the daring excavation of the longest military tunnel in history. |
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advance Alabama Alfred Waud Ambrose Burnside Answer artillery assault attack Battery battle black troops bomb-proof Burnside's Captain Cavanaugh and Marvel Cemetery Hill charge chief of staff Civil colored troops Confederate Confederate lines counterattack countermine Court of Inquiry Crater dead detonation digging Dimmock Line Duane earth Edward Ferrero Elliott's Salient enemy enemy's line engineer explosion Featherston Federal feet fire flank forward Fourth Division front fuse gallery George Gordon Meade Grant Hartranft HEADQUARTERS ARMY Henry Pleasants Ibid infantry IX Corps Joint Committee July 30 killed Ledlie's Library of Congress Lieutenant Colonel Mahone Major Major-General BURNSIDE Meade's chief military miners move muskets North Carolina officers parapet Pennsylvania position Potomac Potter powder Quoted in Cannan Quoted in Cavanaugh rear regiments reply reported Richmond Second Brigade sent shaft side siege siege of Petersburg soldiers South trenches tunnel U.S. Colored Troops Union lines Virginia white troops Willcox wounded York