. Young folks' history of the civil war . ^, June 16. Thegreater part of both armies were by this time engaged. Thefighting continued till the evening of the i8th : then Grant Dciufs, not Words. 439 gave up the struggle, and began a regular siege. It hadbeen a bloody battle. One night of delay had cost thearmies of the Potomac and the James nearly ten thousandmen. So long as their garrisons could be fed, neither Peters-burg nor Richmond Was in danger of capture. During thesiege, which lasted ten months, but two attempts were made. AKiMV-CORPS CHAPEL NEAR PETERSBURG. to carry Petersburg
. Young folks' history of the civil war . ^, June 16. Thegreater part of both armies were by this time engaged. Thefighting continued till the evening of the i8th : then Grant Dciufs, not Words. 439 gave up the struggle, and began a regular siege. It hadbeen a bloody battle. One night of delay had cost thearmies of the Potomac and the James nearly ten thousandmen. So long as their garrisons could be fed, neither Peters-burg nor Richmond Was in danger of capture. During thesiege, which lasted ten months, but two attempts were made. AKiMV-CORPS CHAPEL NEAR PETERSBURG. to carry Petersburg by assault. The first was suggestetl byone of Burnsides men, who had been a miner in the Penn-sylvania coal-regions. Meade agreed to his plan, and thework began. The month of July was spent in digging amine, or tunnel, from a point in the Federal lines under a fortwithin the enemys works. Proper tools were not to be had ;and cracker-boxes were used to take the earth out of the 440 Young Folks History of the Civil War. [Z564. trench, which was five hundred and twenty feet long, four feetand a half wide, and the same in height. Under the fortthis gallery branched in opposite directions, thirty-five feeteach way. In these were placed eight magazines filled withgunpowder, connected with each other by means of fuzes,and extending to the mouth of the main shaft. As soon asall was ready, Hancock made a feint on the north side ofthe James, and Lee withdrew a part of his force from Peters-burg, believing Richmond to be threatened. The sig
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