. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ing of the 18th, a general assault wasordered upon the whole Confederate front. The skirmishersmoved forward but found the works, where, on the precedingday, such desperate fighting had occurred, deserted. Duringthe night, Beam-egard liad successfully made a retrogrademovement. He had found the old line too long for the numberof his men and had selected a shorter one, from five hundred toone thousand yards to the rear, that was to remain the Con-federate wall of the c
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ing of the 18th, a general assault wasordered upon the whole Confederate front. The skirmishersmoved forward but found the works, where, on the precedingday, such desperate fighting had occurred, deserted. Duringthe night, Beam-egard liad successfully made a retrogrademovement. He had found the old line too long for the numberof his men and had selected a shorter one, from five hundred toone thousand yards to the rear, that was to remain the Con-federate wall of the city during tlie siege. But there were noentrenchments here and the weary battle-worn soldiers atonce set to work to dig them, for the j^robable renewal of thecontest. In the darkness and through the early morning hours,the men did witli wliatever they could find as tools—some withtheir bayonets, or split canteens, Avhile others used their was the beginning of those massive works that defied thearmy of Grant before Petersburg for nearly a year. By noon 102] June1864 ^^m 1^ 1 ^^ a ^•,%t; .•>■: o V H/cl. COPrRIGMT, 19t1, REVIEW OF HEViewS CO. WHAT EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS OF POWDER DID The Crater, torn by the mine within Elliotts Salient. At dawn of July 30, 1864, the fifty thousand Fed-eral troops waiting to make a charge saw a great mass of earth hurled skyward like a water-spout. As itspread out into an immense cloud, scattering guns, carriages, timbers, and what were once human beings,the front ranks broke in panic; it looked as if the mass were descending upon their own heads. The menwere quickly rallied; across the narrow plain they charged, through the awful breach, and up the heightsbeyond to gain Cemetery Ridge. But there were brave fighters on the other side still left, and delay amongthe Federals enabled the Confederates to rally and re-form in time to drive the Federals back down thesteep sides of the Crater. There, as they struggled amidst the horri
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