2014, July 30 - The Crater, Petersburg National Battlefield Park. Visiting the site where, on this date in 1864, the Union’s ingenious attempt to break the Confederate lines 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. 150 years later, the US Postal Service issues a commemorative stamp in a ceremony just feet away from The Crater.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 21:56:55 +0000
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