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Page 1 The Battle of the Crater

Page 2 Civil War Campaigns And Commanders Series Under the General Editorship of Grady McWhiney Published Battle in the Wilderness: Grant Meets Lee by Grady McWhiney Death in September: The Antietam Campaign by Perry D. Jamieson Texans in the Confederate Cavalry by Anne J. Bailey Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians by John C. Waugh The Saltville Massacre by Thomas D. Mays General James Longstreet in the West: A Monumental Failure by Judith Lee Hallock The Battle of the Crater by Jeff Kinard Forthcoming Cottonclads! The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast by Donald S. Frazier A Deep, Steady Thunder: The Battle of Chickamauga by Steven E. Woodworth The Texas Overland Expedition by Richard Lowe Raphael Semmes and the Alabama by Spencer C. Tucker

Page 3 The Battle of the Crater Jeff Kinard Under the General Editorship of Grady McWhiney MCWHINEY FOUNDATION PRESS MCMURRY UNIVERSITY ABILENE, TEXAS

Page 4 Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kinard, Jeff, 1954 The Battle of the Crater / Jeff Kinard. p. cm. (Civil War campaigns and commanders) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-886661-06-5 (pbk.) 1. Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864. I. Title. II. Series. E476.93.K56 1995 973.7'37dc209533310 CIP Copyright1998, MCWHINEY FOUNDATION PRESS All Rights Reserved McMurry Station, Box 637 Abilene, TX 79697-0637 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the MCWHINEY FOUNDATION PRESS. Printed in the United States of America ISBN 1-886661-06-5 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Book Designed by Rosenbohm Design Group All inquiries regarding volume purchases of this book should be addressed to MCWHINEY FOUNDATION PRESS, McMurry Station, Box 637, Abilene, TX 79697-0637. Telephone inquiries may be made by calling (915) 691-6681.

Page 5 A Note On The Series Few segments of America's past excite more interest than Civil War battles and leaders. This ongoing series of brief, lively, and authoritative booksCivil War Campaigns and Commanderssalutes this passion with inexpensive and accurate accounts that are readable in a sitting. Each volume, separate and complete in itself, nevertheless conveys the agony, glory, death, and wreckage that defined America's greatest tragedy. In this series, designed for Civil War enthusiasts as well as the newly recruited, emphasis is on telling good stories. Photographs and biographical sketches enhance the narrative of each book, and maps depict events as they happened. Sound history is meshed with the dramatic in a format that is just lengthy enough to inform and yet satisfy. Grady McWhiney General Editor Page 7 Contents 1. The Key to Richmond 13 2. The Plan 24 3. "We Looks Like Men Er War" 37 4. "A Spectacle of Appalling Grandeur" 45 5. "Into the Mouth of Hell" 55 6. "The Saddest Affair" 68

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Page 9 Maps Richmond and Petersburg 15 The Lines at Petersburg 21 The Mine 30 The Ventilation Shaft 31 The Crater 35 Burnside's Plan

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