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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s nullified. Oneexplosion after anotlier, on the morning of the 3d, rent theair with deafening roar, as the magazines took fire. The scenewas one of terror and grandeur. The flames spread to the city from the ships, bridges, andarsenal, which had been set on fire, and hundreds of buildings,including the best residential section of the capital of the Con-federacy, w ere destroyed. When the L^nion army entered the city in the morning,thousands of the inhabitants, men, Avomen, and children, weregathered at street corners and in the jjarks, in wildest confu-sion. The conmiissary depot had been broken open by thestarving mob, and rifled of its contents, until the place wasreached by the spreading flames. The Federal soldiers stackedarms, and heroically battled -with the fire, drafting into thework all able-bodied men found in the city. The invaders ex-tinguished the flames, and soon restored the city to a state of order and safety. The invalid wife of (General IjCC, who was (302) April y~\
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IN PETERSBURG—AFTER NINE MONTHS OF BATTERING This fine mansion on Bolingbroke Street, the residential section of Petersburg, has now, on tlie 3d of April, fallen into the liands ofstraggling Union soldiers. Its windows have long since been shattered by shells from distant Federal mortars; one has even burstthrough the wall. But it was not till the night of April 2d, when the retreat of the Confederate forces started, that the citizens be-gan to leave their homes. At 9 oclock in the morning General Grant, surrounded by his staff, rode quietly into the city. The streetswere deserted. At length they arrived at a comfortable home standing back in a yard. There he dismounted and sat for a while onthe piazza. Soon a group of curious citizens gathered on the sidewalk to gaze at the commander of the Yankee armies. But theUnion troops did not remain long in the deserted homes. Sheridan was already in pursuit south of the .\ppomattox, and Grant, aftera short conference with Lincoln, rode to t

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