Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892
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, where Lieut. Col. Pleasants, a Pennsylvania coal miner, ran agallery from our lines, under the rebel battery, some 500 feetdistant, and blew it entirely out of existence. The mine containedfour tons of powder and produced a crater 200 feet by 50 feet and 25feet deep, and was completed in one month. The sequel to this was tobe an attack on the enemy's line through the gap made by theexplosion, and such an attack properly followed up would doubtlesshave had a marked effect in shortening the dur...ation of the war, butthis attack was so badly managed that it utterly failed and caused asevere loss to our own army. The mine itself, however, was a greatsuccess and produced a decided moral effect on both sides which lasteduntil the end of the war.
It may be out of place to digress a moment to illustrate the moraleffect of such a convulsion. Several weeks after this great mineexplosion, the 18th Army Corps, to which I then belonged, was holdinga line of works recently captured from the rebels, about six milesfrom Richmond, when one night the colonel commanding Fort Harrison, alarge field work forming a part of this line, came down toheadquarters and reported that some old Pennsylvania coal miners inhis command had heard mining going on under the fort.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
, where Lieut. Col. Pleasants, a Pennsylvania coal miner, ran agallery from our lines, under the rebel battery, some 500 feetdistant, and blew it entirely out of existence. The mine containedfour tons of powder and produced a crater 200 feet by 50 feet and 25feet deep, and was completed in one month. The sequel to this was tobe an attack on the enemy's line through the gap made by theexplosion, and such an attack properly followed up would doubtlesshave had a marked effect in shortening the dur...ation of the war, butthis attack was so badly managed that it utterly failed and caused asevere loss to our own army. The mine itself, however, was a greatsuccess and produced a decided moral effect on both sides which lasteduntil the end of the war.
It may be out of place to digress a moment to illustrate the moraleffect of such a convulsion. Several weeks after this great mineexplosion, the 18th Army Corps, to which I then belonged, was holdinga line of works recently captured from the rebels, about six milesfrom Richmond, when one night the colonel commanding Fort Harrison, alarge field work forming a part of this line, came down toheadquarters and reported that some old Pennsylvania coal miners inhis command had heard mining going on under the fort.
What to read after Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892?
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