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With this richly researched and dramatic work of military services history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil War’s most pivotal occasions: the Challenge of the Crater on July 30, 1864. Initially, the Union’s plan seemed excellent: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a Confederate fort, pack the tunnel with explosives, and blow a hole in the foe lines. Then a specially trained division of BLACK infantry would spearhead a robust assault to exploit the breach created by the explosion. Thus, in one decisive action, the Union would marshal its mastery of technology and resources, as well as demonstrate the superior morale produced by the Military of the Potomac’s adopt of emancipation. On the line was the opportunity to drive Standard Robert E. Lee’s Military of North Virginia away from the defense of the Confederate capital of Richmond–and end the war.
The effect was something very good different. The episode was hamstrung by incompetent authority and political infighting in the Union demand. The considerable explosion ripped available an huge crater, which became a death trap for troops that tried to pass through it. A large number of troops on both factors lost their lives in savage trench warfare that prefigured the brutal combat of World War I. However the fighting with each other here was intensified by racial hatred, with cries on both factors of “No 1 / 4!” In your final horror, the struggle finished with the massacre of wounded or surrendering Dark troops by the Rebels–and by a few of their White comrades in biceps and triceps. The great episode finished in bloody failing, and the war would be long term for another year.
With gripping and unforgettable depictions of struggle and detailed identity portraits of troops and statesmen, No 1 / 4 compellingly re-creates in individuals scale a meeting epic in opportunity and mind-boggling in its cost of life. In using the Challenge of the Crater as a lens through which to focus the political and social ramifications of the Civil War–particularly the racial tensions on both factors of the have difficulty–Richard Slotkin brings to viewers a fresh point of view on perhaps the most consequential period in American history.
