SIEGE OPERATIONS.
Lieutenant-Colonel Pleasants. -- His Plan for a Mine to destroy
the Works before Petersburg. -- Difficulties he encountered in
constructing it. -- Battle at Deep Bottom. -- Completion of the
Mine. -- Preparations for springing it. -- Fuse goes out. --
Delay. -- Relighted. -- The Explosion. -- Consternation of the
Rebels. -- Confusion of Union Troops. -- Rebels return to their
Guns. -- Terrible Slaughter in the Crater. -- Reasons for the
Failure. -- The Rebel Press. -- The Fortunes of the Confederacy. 376