Civil War:
The Petersburg National Battlefield
The explosion of the mine during the
Battle of the Crater is believed to have been the world's
strongest wartime explosion before Hiroshima
The explosion of the mine and the destruction of the Confederate works
The Ninth Union Army charging immediately after the explosion of the mine, July 30th, 1864
Union troops outside Petersburg
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