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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
on, need it be wondered that an elfish fate turned up of all the divisions the poorest—a division fitted neither in respect of its composition nor its commander for the glorious but exacting duty assigned it. The hour for the explosion of the mine was fixed at halfpast four in the morning of the 30th. At that hour the match was applied, but, owing to the defective fuse employed, the mine failed to explode. After waiting some time, a commissioned and a non-commissioned officer Lieutenant Jacob Douty and Sergeant Henry Rees, of the Forty-eighth Pennsylvania Regiment. volunteered for the perilous duty of entering the mine and ascertaining the cause of the failure. The fuse being relighted, the mine exploded at forty-two minutes past four in the morning. A solid mass of earth, through which the exploding powder blazed like lightning playing in a bank of clouds, arose slowly some two hundred feet into the air, and, hanging visibly for a few seconds, it subsided, and a heavy cloud o