. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . cuted by his own men. General Meade and GeneralGrant sanctioned the project, and plans were adopted for anassault on the entire Confederate line when the mine shouldexplode. The majority of the men employed in the work wereminers from the coal regions of Pennsylvania, and the neces-sary expedients were familiar to them, without special instruc-tions from the engineers. The excavation was commencedwithout special tools, lumber, or any of the materials usuallyrequired f
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . cuted by his own men. General Meade and GeneralGrant sanctioned the project, and plans were adopted for anassault on the entire Confederate line when the mine shouldexplode. The majority of the men employed in the work wereminers from the coal regions of Pennsylvania, and the neces-sary expedients were familiar to them, without special instruc-tions from the engineers. The excavation was commencedwithout special tools, lumber, or any of the materials usuallyrequired for such work. By late afternoon, on July 23d, theexcavations were deemed complete. Eighteen thousand cubicfeet of earth had been removed. The mine was charged on the afternoon and evening of the27th, with three hundred and twenty kegs of powder, each con-taining about twenty-five pounds. Altogether, there were eightmagazines connected by wooden tubes which were half filledwith powder. These tubes met at the inner end of the main gal- this gallery to the exit. As246 lery, and fuses were laid along CELEBRATING ANANNIVERSARY. ENGINEERSON .11 4, 1864 Thus tin- officers of the Fiftieth New York Engineers celebrated the victories of Gettysburg and Vicksburg in front of Petersburg July4s 1804. At the head of the table sits Lieutenant-Colonel Ira Spaulding. On his right is (harlcs Francis Adams, later a leading Ameri-can historian. Often in front of Petersburg just a few more shovelfuls of earth meant the saving of lives. The veterans in the lowerphotograph are bearded and bronzed; the muscles beneath their shabby blue tunics were developed by heavy, constant manual operations in this campaign marked a development in field-fortifications, opened virtually a new era in warfare. The siege wasnot a bombardment of impregnable fortifications. It was a constant series of assaults and picket-firing on lines of entrenchments inthe open. By July, 1864, the earthworks to the east h
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