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Confederate engineers schemed to blow a section of Yankee earthworks sky-high. The Army of the Potomac started it all. About 4:44 a.m. on July 30, 1864, a sputtering Union fuse ignited 8,000 pounds of gunpowder packed in a mine underneath Pegram’s Salient, a section of the Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia. A mass of earth, …
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