Calamity in the Crater
The explosion and aftermath at the Crater become synonymous with Petersburg combat, as shown in period sketches.
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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...
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...
"No Quarter"
Article by historian A. Wilson Greene discussing the fierce combat at the Crater on July 30, 1864, during the Petersburg Campaign.
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.
The Crater
Article discussing the explosion of the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864.
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...
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...
Battles of the Crater and of June 22nd
HISTORICAL MAP | Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia and June 22, 1864
Richmond, Petersburg, and vicinity.
HISTORICAL MAP | General Grant's campaign war map of Richmond, Petersburg, and vicinity
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...
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...