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- 01The explosion created a crater 170 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 30 feet deep on July 30, 1864.
- 02Generals ordered troops into the crater itself rather than around it; Confederate fire from the rim was uncontested.
- 03Union losses: 3,798 men in under four hours. Grant called it 'the saddest affair I have witnessed in the war.'