Henry Pleasants
Military Person
1833 – 1880
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Who was Henry Pleasants?
Henry Clay Pleasants was a coal mining engineer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is best known for organizing the building of an underground tunnel filled with explosives under the Confederate lines outside Petersburg, Virginia, resulting in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864, an opportunity for Union troops to break the defense of Petersburg.
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- Born
- Feb 16, 1833
Buenos Aires - Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Pottsville
- Died
- Mar 26, 1880
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on July 23, 2013
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