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Episodes tagged "Artillery": 1 through 2 of 2

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  1. Trench Warfare and Artillery at the Crater
    date July 30, 1864map DINWIDDIE, Virginiatags Battle of the Crater, Civil War, Artillery

                 One of the opening battles of the Petersburg Campaign and one that foreshadowed some of the tactics used in the trench warfare of the First World War was the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864.  At this point in the war, the armies of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant had settled into trench warfare in the area just to the south of Richmond, with the U.S. Army attempting...

  2. Entitled Confederate Artillery in Defense of the Mississippi River along Vicksburg.
    date May 18, 1863 to July 4, 1863map WARREN, Mississippitags Artillery, Vicksburg, Civil War

    A citizen of Vicksburg observed that during the siege "nothing was spared by the shells; the churchs fared especially severly, and the reverend clergy had narrow escapes." This was brought upon by Ulysses S. Grant, who had taken control of the entire Mississippi River save the couple miles being guarded by the Confederate troops at Vicksburg. Grant launched his attack on Vicksburg on May 18, 1863....