"Hell Has Busted" - The Battle Of The Crater - Petersburg, Virginia 1864

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It was the fourth summer of the war, and Ulysses S. Grant’s Overland Campaign had sledgehammered its way down to Petersburg, Virginia. It had been a campaign that had bled both blue and grey armies white.

There, east of town, under oppressive heat and humidity that walks hand-in-hand with the month of July, a daring plan unfolded - which, if successful, might end the war. Instead, it added to the slaughter. This is the story of an engineering marvel - a tunnel.

This is the story of The Battle Of The Crater.

Narrated by Fred Kiger
Produced by Dan Irving
Published by Third Wheel Media

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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Henry Pleasants
George G. Meade
E. Porter Alexander
Ambrose E. Burnside
Edward Ferrero
James H. Ledlie