💥 “Hell Opened at Petersburg: The Battle of the Crater, 1864” �On July 30, 1864, during the grinding Siege of Petersburg, Union forces attempted one of the Civil War’s most daring and disastrous experiments in warfare. After weeks of tunneling beneath the Confederate lines, Pennsylvania coal miners packed 8,000 pounds of gunpowder into a massive underground chamber. At dawn, the explosion ripped a gaping hole—170 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 30 feet deep—in the Confederate defenses. The blast k
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