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The Confederates attack, but too many men are tied up in a narrow corridor, and the Confederates have time to recover and halt the advance right inside the crater, where they massacre 3,700 bluecoats, killed and wounded. The grays lose 1,500 men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle of the Crater. Petersburg, Virginia. 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