Quote Originally Posted by Franconicus
Very good. The persons are very real, that is what I like most.

One question: If memory serves, the Union used mines only at the end of the war, when both sides were already demoralized. If this is true then the Greys should be more demoralized.

But go on! Excellent story.
that's a good point...this is of course the 'big mine' at Petersburg in 1864. I guess some people never think about giving up, and I think this is one of the things that made Lee's Confederate troops so invincible on the defensive, they just wouldn't quit...
writing part two sometime this week, work permitting...