Cold Mountain - The Crater - Siege of Petersburg - Part 2

About five hundred Africans were captured. Some were killed after they surrendered but the majority were spared. Captured Union doctors would not even lend aid to their own men.

The Africans were marched in Petersburg side by side with the white Union troops. Petersburg citizens yelled all sorts of words at the soldiers.

man front line reallly sucks balls

The mud was caused by the blood of the soldiers, not water

does anyone else think oakley is pretty hench?

I like that the Cherokee nation fought on the side of the Confederacy and played a huge role in this campaign.

yeah I know. I like it when the indian is throwing the muskets with bayonets on em into the crowd......for some reason the indian in movies are bad ass.

Wait, why was there mud? Shouldn't the heat from that explosion vaporize any moisture in that crater? There should have been ashes and scorched, hot earth, not mud.

One of my Great Grand Fathers was at the Crater in the Confederate Army, a South Carolina regiment, he is quoted as having said " that battle was the only one that I actually felt really sorry for the poor bastards, they were like fish in a barrel, trapped with no where to go, and we were killing everything that moved in that Crater."

Black Union Soldiers were trained to basically trained to blow this big fucking crater and the troops were to go around it, but due to the Radical Republicans (I think it was him) Abraham Lincoln put white soldiers in charge of blowing the crater, but they weren't trained properly so when they got into the crater; they couldn't get out, so this scene really shows what it was, the Confederacy throwing everything they had into a hole full of Union Soldiers that couldn't defend themselves

Once they had wandered to the crater, instead of moving around it as the black troops had been trained to do, they moved down into the crater itself. The walls of the crater were too steep for them to climb up (all of them atleast) so they were literally trapped. The scene also captures how a few of them had died just by drowning in the bloody mud from being stepped on by either their comrades or their enemies.