Fought during the American Civil War Petersburg should never have been ""under siege"" at all. Union forces should have seized control of the town in June 1864 but through a mixture of confusion and incompetence they failed in their objective and a yearlong siege followed. Petersburg is best remembered for the tragedy of the great crater the result of a huge underground explosion in July 1864 into which the Union Army inexplicably charged creating a ready made killing zone. This unusual tactic was an extreme answer to solving the problem of siege warfare.
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