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Updated: June 13, 2025

The mine was on an enormous scale, designed to hold eight tons of powder, though it was only charged with four, and was approached by a gallery five hundred feet long. On the twentyninth Grant brought every available man into proper support of Burnside, whose other three divisions were to form the immediate support of Ledlie's grand forlorn hope.

William Charles Henry Wood - Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray

The last was a colored division; and Burnside selected it to make the assault. Meade interfered with this. Burnside then took Ledlie's division a worse selection than the first could have been. In fact, Potter and Willcox were the only division commanders Burnside had who were equal to the occasion.

Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant - Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2

Ledlie's division marched into the crater immediately on the explosion, but most of the men stopped there in the absence of any one to give directions; their commander having found some safe retreat to get into before they started.

- Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals