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Jun 1864–Apr 1865 — Nine months of trenches, mortars, and a mine that becomes the Crater fiasco, while Grant strangles Richmond’s railroads one by one. When the line snaps on 2 April, the Confederacy has a week to live.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — Hard War in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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