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==References== '''Notes''' {{Reflist|25em|refs= <ref name=casualties>Trudeau, p. 127. Davis, p. 89, cite 3,500 Union casualties, 1,500 Confederate. Eicher, p. 723, cites 4,400 total casualties. Kennedy, p. 356, and Salmon, p. 421, cite 3,798 Union casualties, 1,491 Confederate. Bonekemper, p. 315, cites Confederate casualties as 200 killed, 900 wounded, 400 missing or captured.</ref> <ref name=cwsac>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/CWSII/VirginiaBattlefieldProfiles/Cool%20Spring%20to%20Cumberland%20Church.pdf|title=CWSAC Report Update}}</ref> }} '''Bibliography''' * {{cite book |last=Blake |first=Nelson Morehouse |title=William Mahone of Virginia : soldier and political insurgent |volume= |authorlink= |publisher=Richmond : Garret & Massie |year=1935 |isbn= |url=https://archive.org/details/williammahoneofv00blak/page/n5/mode/2up}} * {{cite book|last=Bonekemper III.|first=Edward H.|title=A Victor, Not a Butcher: Ulysses S. Grant's Overlooked Military Genius|location=Washington, DC|publisher=Regnery|year=2004|isbn=0-89526-062-X}}. * {{cite book|author-link=Bruce Catton|last=Catton|first=Bruce|title=[[Stillness at Appomattox|A Stillness at Appomattox]]|location=Garden City, NY|publisher=Doubleday and Company|year=1953|isbn=0-385-04451-8}} * {{cite book|last=Catton|first=Bruce|title=Grant Takes Command|location=Boston|publisher=Little, Brown & Co.|year=1968|isbn=0-316-13210-1}} * {{cite book|last=Chernow |first=Ron |author-link=Ron Chernow|title=Grant|publisher=Penguin Press|location=New York |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-59420-487-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRYcDgAAQBAJ}} * {{cite book|last=Corrigan|first=Jim|title=The 48th Pennsylvania in the Battle of the Crater: A Regiment of Coal Miners Who Tunneled Under the Enemy|location=Jefferson, NC|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2006|isbn=0-7864-2475-3}}. * [[William C. Davis (historian)|Davis, William C.]], and the Editors of Time-Life Books. ''Death in the Trenches: Grant at Petersburg''. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1986. {{ISBN|0-8094-4776-2}}. * {{cite book|author-link=David J. Eicher|last=Eicher|first=David J.|title=The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War|location=New York|publisher=Simon & Schuster|year=2001|isbn=0-684-84944-5}}. * {{cite book |last=Horn |first=John |title=The Petersburg Campaign: June 1864 β April 1865 |publisher=Hachette Books |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-5809-7024-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5RNLmQEACAAJ |ref=horn1999 }} * James, Alfred P. "The Battle of the Crater." ''The Journal of the American Military History Foundation'' 2, no. 1 (Spring, 1938), pp. 2β25 * [[Robert Underwood Johnson|Johnson, Robert Underwood]], and Clarence C. Buel, eds. [http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/books/battles/index.cfm ''Battles and Leaders of the Civil War'']. 4 vols. New York: Century Co., 1884β1888. {{OCLC|2048818}}. * Kennedy, Frances H., ed. ''The Civil War Battlefield Guide''. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. {{ISBN|0-395-74012-6}}. * [[James M. McPherson|McPherson, James M.]] ''[[Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era]]''. Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. {{ISBN|0-19-503863-0}}. * [[James I. Robertson, Jr.|Robertson, James I., Jr.]], and William Pegram. '"The Boy Artillerist": Letters of Colonel William Pegram, C.S.A.<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'' 98, no. 2 (The Trumpet Unblown: The Old Dominion in the Civil War), (1990), pp. 221β60. * Lykes, Richard Wayne. [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52760 ''Campaign for Petersburg'', Ch. 6 "Battle of the Crater"] for the National Park Service, 1970 * Salmon, John S. ''The Official Virginia Civil War Battlefield Guide''. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. {{ISBN|0-8117-2868-4}}. * {{cite book |last=Slotkin |first=Richard |title=No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864 |volume= |authorlink= |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-5883-6848-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yfN_PVMBOUIC |ref=slotkin2009 }} * Trudeau, Noah Andre. ''The Last Citadel: Petersburg, Virginia, June 1864 β April 1865''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991. {{ISBN|0-8071-1861-3}}. * [http://www.nps.gov/abpp/battles/va070.htm National Park Service battle description] * [http://www.nps.gov/abpp/CWSII/VirginiaBattlefieldProfiles/Cool%20Spring%20to%20Cumberland%20Church.pdf CWSAC Report Update] '''Further reading''' * {{cite book |last=Case |first=Ervin T. |title=Battle of the mine |authorlink= |publisher=Sidney S. Rider |year=1879 |url=https://archive.org/details/05879324.94680.emory.edu/page/n3/mode/2up }} * [[Ron Chernow|Chernow, Ron]]. ''[[Grant (book)|Grant]].'' London: Penguin Press, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1594204876}}. * Greene, A. Wilson. ''A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg''. Vol. 1: ''From the Crossing of the James to the Crater''. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1-4696-3857-7}}. * Levin, Kevin M. ''Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder.'' Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-8131-3610-3}}. * [[Henry Pleasants|Pleasants, Henry]]. ''Inferno at Petersburg''. Edited by George H. Straley. Philadelphia: [[Chilton Book Co.]], 1961. {{OCLC|643863102}}. * Schmutz, John F. ''The Battle of the Crater: a Complete History''. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2009. {{ISBN|978-0786439829}}
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