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This was the Battle of the Crater, during the long siege of Petersburg in 1864.

A regiment of Pennslvania miners were impatient at the static nature of the combat, and pointed out how easily they could mine under the Confederate positions and blow the enemy sky high.

Grant did not believe it would work, but gave permission for them to start digging the tunnels, just to keep them occupied.

Presently the plan began to look more feasible, and General Burnside carefully rehearsed a brigade of black troops in how to exploit the situation - making a point of moving around the side of the crater.

At the last moment, the plan was changed, because Grant still thought it would fail, and didn't want to be accused of treating black troops as though they were expendable. Instead, he ordered Burnside to send in another brigade, which was unrehearsed and tried to move across the centre of the crater, where they were massacred by high-lying Confederate guns. To make things worse, the commander of that brigade had dodged the battle altogether, and was found drunk in a rear trench.

The Battle of the Crater could have ended the siege - and the war - in 24 hours.

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