Civil War | Article Calamity in the Crater The explosion and aftermath at the Crater become synonymous with Petersburg combat, as shown in period sketches.
Civil War | Article 10 Facts: The Petersburg Campaign Learn more about the Petersburg Campaign. Our 10 Facts are designed to help expand your knowledge and appreciation for this 9 and a half month Civil...
Civil War | Article African Americans in the Civil War African Americans were freemen, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, sailors, laborers, and slaveowners during the Civil War. As a historian, I must be...
Civil War | Article "No Quarter" Article by historian A. Wilson Greene discussing the fierce combat at the Crater on July 30, 1864, during the Petersburg Campaign.
Civil War | Article A Good Idea Squandered An article by historian A. Wilson Greene detailing the construction of the mine at the site which would later become the Battle of the Crater.
Civil War | Article The Crater Article discussing the explosion of the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864.
Civil War | Battlefield The Crater Battlefield The site of the Crater is located within the Eastern Front of the Petersburg National Battlefield Park and is a stop along the self-guided driving...
Civil War | Video The Crater at Petersburg On the morning of July 30, 1864, Union troops exploded a mine underneath Elliott's Salient, an earthwork (jutting out to form an angle) defending...
Civil War | Historical Map Battles of the Crater and of June 22nd HISTORICAL MAP | Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia and June 22, 1864
Civil War | Historical Map Richmond, Petersburg, and vicinity. HISTORICAL MAP | General Grant's campaign war map of Richmond, Petersburg, and vicinity
Civil War | Battle The Crater Two weeks after Union forces arrived to invest the Confederate defenders of Petersburg, the battle lines of both sides had settled into a stalemate...
Civil War | Article Company K of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters It was 1861 when Michigan’s legislature dismissed the idea of George Copway — a popular Methodist minister and Chippewa — to recruit a regiment of...