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  • This Day In History | Civil War July 30, 1864 Battle of the Crater

    07/30/2005 11:32:36 AM PDT · by mainepatsfan · 8 replies · 286+ views
    historychannel.com ^ | 7/30/05 | historychannel.com
    This Day In History | Civil War July 30 1864 Battle of the Crater On this day, the Union's ingenious attempt to break the Confederate lines at Petersburg by blowing up a tunnel that had been dug under the Rebel trenches fails. Although the explosion created a gap in the Confederate defenses, a poorly planned Yankee attack wasted the effort and the result was an eight-month continuation of the siege. The bloody campaign between Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate Robert E. Lee ground to a halt in mid-June, when the two armies dug in at Petersburg, south of...