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Pleasants Mine爆 Explodes at Petersburg Blows Confederate Works
Civil War tale of Henry Pleasants a 31-year-old colonel in the 48th Pennsylvania Inf with coal mining roots who directed a 510-foot tunnel under Confederate lines at Petersburg. After delays the powder exploded on July 30, 1864, creating a massive crater and a costly, disorganized Federal assault that ended in a defeat noted by Grant as the saddest affair he saw.
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Henry Pleasants
Allegheny Mountains
Pennsylvania Railroad
Schuylkill County
48Th
Pennsylvania Infantry
VX Corps
Petersburg
Pleasants
Robert Potter
Ambrose E. Burnside
IX Corps
Burnside
Meade
Tme
Washington
Pleasant
Richmond
Mmine
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant
Pleasants Way
Harry Rees
Rees
Jacob Douly
Regis de Trobriand
James H. Ledlie