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Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder by Kevin M. Levin (review)

Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder by Kevin M. Levin (review) Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder. By Kevin M. Levin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. Pp. 184. Cloth, $35.00.) The Battle of the Crater, fought on July 30, 1864, as part of the third Union offensive during the Petersburg campaign, has drawn a good deal of attention in the past few years. Several books have been published dealing with the military history of the event, which now seems well covered in the secondary literature. Kevin M. Levin, however, has written a study not of the battle itself but of how it has been remembered over the past 150 years, with a special emphasis on the controversial fact that a division of black troops participated in the attack that followed detonation of the mine that created the famous crater. Many of those troops were slaughtered in the counterattack that restored Robert E. Lee's line outside the city, shot down in cold blood by enraged Confederate soldiers. Inspired by the growing body of literature dealing with the memory of the Civil War, Levin set out to use the Battle of the Crater as a case study of how racial issues played a role in competing memories http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder by Kevin M. Levin (review)

Hess, Earl J.
The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 3 (2) – May 7, 2013
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Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder. By Kevin M. Levin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. Pp. 184. Cloth, $35.00.) The Battle of the Crater, fought on July 30, 1864, as part of the third Union offensive during the Petersburg campaign, has drawn a good deal of attention in the past few years. Several books have been published dealing with the military history of the event, which now seems well covered in the secondary literature. Kevin M. Levin, however, has written a study not of the battle itself but of how it has been remembered over the past 150 years, with a special emphasis on the controversial fact that a division of black troops participated in the attack that followed detonation of the mine that created the famous crater. Many of those troops were slaughtered in the counterattack that restored Robert E. Lee's line outside the city, shot down in cold blood by enraged Confederate soldiers. Inspired by the growing body of literature dealing with the memory of the Civil War, Levin set out to use the Battle of the Crater as a case study of how racial issues played a role in competing memories

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Published: May 7, 2013

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