ILLUSTRATIONS

Map of the battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864

The mine explosion from behind Union lines

The second Union wave

Private Louis E. Martin, Company E, Twenty-ninth USCT

Earliest known photograph of the Crater

Griffith Farm

Earthworks north of the crater after the war

The Battle of the Crater by John A. Elder

“Second Reunion of Mahone’s Brigade” program

Postwar image of William Mahone

Postwar view of the Crater

Virginia Military Institute cadets at the Crater, June 1915

William Mahone and the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment

The economic development of Petersburg

Dedication of the Petersburg National Military Park, June 20, 1932

The 1937 Crater reenactment

Cadets and Marines participating in the reenactment

Official program from the 1937 Crater reenactment

Students at the mine leading to the tunnel to the Crater, ca. 1937–46

Monuments to the Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery and William Mahone

Ranger Emmanuel Dabney

Mahone’s Counterattack, Don Troiani’s depiction of the Crater