Civil War's bloody Battle of the Crater leaves its mark 154 years later
By ROBERT MCCABE | The Virginian-Pilot | Published: July 30, 2018
PETERSBURG, Va. (Tribune News Service) — One of the most horrific — and iconic — events of the Civil War unfolded 154 years ago Monday.
In the pre-dawn steaminess of July 30, 1864, Lt. Col. William H. Stewart, a Confederate infantry officer from what is now Chesapeake, was in a tent on a farm just outside of Petersburg.
In a 1911 memoir of his Civil War service, Stewart wrote:
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