The Battle of Crater was a battle that took place in American Civil War on Earth between the Union and Confederate troops in Virginia. Geordi La Forge had an ancestor who fought in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864 with the US 28th Colored Troops out of Indiana. This ancestor carried the regimental flag and lost his arm in the battle. (TNG novel: The Forgotten War)
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| - The Battle of Crater was a battle that took place in American Civil War on Earth between the Union and Confederate troops in Virginia. Geordi La Forge had an ancestor who fought in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864 with the US 28th Colored Troops out of Indiana. This ancestor carried the regimental flag and lost his arm in the battle. (TNG novel: The Forgotten War)
- After weeks of preparation, on July 30, Union forces exploded a mine in Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's IX Corps sector, blowing a gap in the Confederate defenses of Petersburg. From this propitious beginning, everything deteriorated rapidly for the Union attackers. Unit after unit charged into and around the crater, where soldiers milled in confusion. Grant considered the assault "the saddest affair I have witnessed in the war." The Confederates quickly recovered and launched several counterattacks led by Brig. Gen. William Mahone. The breach was sealed off, and Union forces were repulsed with severe casualties. Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero's division of black soldiers was badly mauled. This may have been Grant's best chance to end the Siege of Petersburg. Instead, the soldiers settled in for a
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- Alfred R. Waud, artist.
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| - The Battle of Crater was a battle that took place in American Civil War on Earth between the Union and Confederate troops in Virginia. Geordi La Forge had an ancestor who fought in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864 with the US 28th Colored Troops out of Indiana. This ancestor carried the regimental flag and lost his arm in the battle. (TNG novel: The Forgotten War)
- After weeks of preparation, on July 30, Union forces exploded a mine in Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside's IX Corps sector, blowing a gap in the Confederate defenses of Petersburg. From this propitious beginning, everything deteriorated rapidly for the Union attackers. Unit after unit charged into and around the crater, where soldiers milled in confusion. Grant considered the assault "the saddest affair I have witnessed in the war." The Confederates quickly recovered and launched several counterattacks led by Brig. Gen. William Mahone. The breach was sealed off, and Union forces were repulsed with severe casualties. Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero's division of black soldiers was badly mauled. This may have been Grant's best chance to end the Siege of Petersburg. Instead, the soldiers settled in for another eight months of trench warfare. Burnside was relieved of command for the last time for his role in the debacle, and he was never again returned to command.
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