I finished reading Amazon.com: The Horrid Pit: The Battle of the Crater, the Civil War's Cruelest Mission (9780786718115): Alan Axelrod: Gateway last week. It was a battle pregnant with possibility that made Grant remark, "It was the saddest affair I have witnessed in war." It saw the cold blooded murder of USCT soldiers by Confederates, stopped only by William Mahone's intervention. It also saw the beginning of the end for Ambrose Burnsides, who was soon thereafter relieved.
I think it's clear that Burnsides was wronged, and it also seems to me that his original plan for Ferrero's division would have been successful in creating a breach in the ANV's defenses at Petersburg. Should the war have ended in July 1864?
I think it's clear that Burnsides was wronged, and it also seems to me that his original plan for Ferrero's division would have been successful in creating a breach in the ANV's defenses at Petersburg. Should the war have ended in July 1864?
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