Henry Pleasants, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henry Pleasants

Union United States Army general

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1833

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 26-Mar-1880

Profession: military officer, journalist, musicologist, music journalist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Henry Clay Pleasants (February 16, 1833 – March 26, 1880) was a coal mining engineer and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
He is best known for organizing the building of a tunnel filled with explosives under the Confederate lines outside Petersburg, Virginia, which resulted in the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864.
The Union troops, however, failed in their opportunity to break the Siege of Petersburg.