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beneath the jagged blocks of blackened clay — in all, 256 officers and men of the Eighteenth and Twenty-second South Carolina--two officers and twenty men of Pegram's Petersburg Battery.1
The dread upheaval has rent in twain Elliott's brigade, and the men to the right and left of the huge abyss recoil in terror and dismay.
Nor shall we censure them, for so terrible was the explosion that even the assaulting column shrank back aghast, and nearly ten minutes elapsed ere it could be reformed.2
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1 Beauregard's Ms. Report of Mine Explosion; Lieutenant-Colonel Loring's statement.
2 Statement of General O. B. Wilcox, U. S. A.--Report on the Conduct of the War (1865), vol. i, p. 79; Burnside's testimony--Ib., p. 147.
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