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Petersburg Crater Battle Reenactment Chronicle
A scenic reenactment in Petersburg recreates the 1864 Battle of the Crater with Union Marines and Virginia cadets facing Confederate Old Dominion guardsmen. Historian Dr Douglas Southall Freeman narrates, detailing Pleasants mining feat, Meade and Grant missteps, and the mine’s disaster causing thousands of deaths, and the lasting tunnel remnants viewed today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Park Service
United States Marine Corps
Virginia Military Institute
National
Douglas Southall Freeman
Robert’” Lee
Petersburg
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
James River
Richmond
Henry Pleasants
Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers
Ninth Corps
A. E. Burnside
Pleasants
Elliott’s Salient
No Man’s Land
Gray
Robert B. Potter
Burnside
Grant
Meade
Duane
Army of the Potomac
Ledlie
Jacob Douty
Henry Rees
Mahone