For the English music critic Henry Pleasants, see Henry Pleasants (music critic). Henry Clay Pleasants (February 16, 1833 – March 26, 1880) was a coal mining engineer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best known for organizing the building of an underground tunnel filled with explosives under the Confederate lines outside Petersburg, Virginia, resulting in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, an opportunity for Union troops to break the defense of Petersburg.
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| - For the English music critic Henry Pleasants, see Henry Pleasants (music critic). Henry Clay Pleasants (February 16, 1833 – March 26, 1880) was a coal mining engineer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best known for organizing the building of an underground tunnel filled with explosives under the Confederate lines outside Petersburg, Virginia, resulting in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, an opportunity for Union troops to break the defense of Petersburg.
- Henry Clay Pleasants (February 16, 1833 - March 26, 1880) was a coal mining engineer and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army during the American Civil War. Pleasants was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and did not live in the United States until age 13, when he was sent to school in Philadelphia. He worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad and in anthracite coal mines. In 1857, he moved to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to become a civil engineer in the local mining industry.
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| - For the English music critic Henry Pleasants, see Henry Pleasants (music critic). Henry Clay Pleasants (February 16, 1833 – March 26, 1880) was a coal mining engineer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best known for organizing the building of an underground tunnel filled with explosives under the Confederate lines outside Petersburg, Virginia, resulting in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, an opportunity for Union troops to break the defense of Petersburg.
- Henry Clay Pleasants (February 16, 1833 - March 26, 1880) was a coal mining engineer and a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army during the American Civil War. Pleasants was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and did not live in the United States until age 13, when he was sent to school in Philadelphia. He worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad and in anthracite coal mines. In 1857, he moved to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to become a civil engineer in the local mining industry. Pleasants earned his place in history during the siege of Petersburg in 1864 when he masterminded and oversaw a plan to dig a mine shaft from the Union line to the Confederate, fill an underground chamber with gunpowder, and detonate the charge, blowing a large crater in the Confederate lines. The plan was for a follow-up assault to break through the city's defenses by charging into the breach. Though the crater was successfully detonated, the follow-up assault was repulsed, and the Confederate lines held.
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