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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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THE CAPITAL OF THE CONFEDERACY FALLEN The ruins of the armory in the foreground, the pilhirs of the Petersburg and Richmond Railroad bridge across the James, a few housesin Manchester beyond the stream—this picture of desolation revives the scenes of wild commotion in Richmond on the 2d and 3dof April, 18G5. On the 2d, a quiet Sunday, Jefferson Davis, at morning service in St. Pauls Church, received a despatch from Gen-eral Lee, announcing the imminent fall of Petersburg and the necessity of retreating that night. Mr. Davis left his seat calmly; butby half-past eleven a strange agitation began to appear in the streets, and by noon the worst was known. A hubbub of excitement,the rumbling of trains and rattling of wagons Blled the afternoon. By sunset bands of ruffians made their appearance on the prin- 1
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THE DESERT AND THE WASTE PLACES I\ RICHMOND, APRIL, 1805 clpal streets. That night was full of the pandemonium of flight. Orders for the burning of the arsenals and all public buildingswere issued before the officers of government left the city. To prevent drunkenness the alcoholic liquor was emptied into the gut-ters. The explosion of the magazines threw high into the air burning fragments which fell upon the adjacent buildings in Richmondand even across the river in Manchester. The hundreds of blazing piles lighted up the river with the brightness of day as it rushedsparkling beneath the high-arched bridges past the flaming cities. At early dawn, amid the roar of the explosions and of the fallingbuildings, the clatter of LInion cavalry was heard in the streets. The capital of the Confederacy had fallen. w^

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