Civil_War_Quarterly_-_Spring_2016_
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Confederate defenders from the 12th Virginia Regiment rush to repel Union attackers after the massive predawn explosion at the C ...
23 An ambitious plan to tunnel beneath Confederate defenses at Petersburg and blast a huge hole in the line inadvertently became ...
works, 20 feet underground, and packed it with 8,000 pounds of highly explosive black gunpowder. After the mine was exploded at ...
shovel to dirt on June 25. Pleasants and his 400 men completed the 511-foot shaft on July 17 in just three weeks—a mining miracl ...
With less than 12 hours remaining before the attack, new plans had to be made. Rather than give Ledlie specific instruc- tions, ...
flanks into Ledlie’s men while well-placed artillery raked the ground on all sides of the pit. An indecipherable labyrinth of tr ...
of the 14th New York Heavy Artillery, “but the effect produced by the falling earth and the fragments sent heavenward that appea ...
advancing any more troops. Meade, exploding in anger when informed of the bottleneck at the Crater, summarily ordered Burnside t ...
bombproofs. In the turmoil, the 30th USCT fired on the 9th New Hampshire and rendered it hors de combat. Despite the blunder, th ...
ing. With the cavalier trench cleared, the Confederate defenders worked their way toward the crowded blue maze north of the Crat ...
own lines, enduring a galling crossfire that killed and wounded hundreds more. In the pit’s southern recesses, Chippewa Indian r ...
fered by black troops, including 219 killed in action and almost 1,000 wounded, the worst day for USCT troops in the entire war. ...
U nder a bright, high sun in a pale blue Midwestern sky, six companies of the United States Cavalry’s 1st Reg- iment rode into a ...
Saber-wielding Civil War cavalrymen duel to the death over control of an American flag. A few years earlier such troopers were f ...
dismounted and raced toward the warrior. Stanley’s pistol misfired, and the wounded Cheyenne limped toward him, clearly intendin ...
New Hampshire, was also suspected of pro-Southern views. Opposition to Davis’s request crumbled in the wake of the shocking Augu ...
equipping. The men were issued colorful new uniforms: dark blue jackets, pale blue trousers, silk sashes, yellow-braided trim, a ...
As soon as weather permitted, Johnston sent the entire regiment into the field to conduct daily scouting patrols of the area. Te ...
mander, General of the Army Winfield Scott. “It is time to follow them up winter and summer, thus giving the Indians some- thing ...
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