Articles from 1865
The pistol ball entered the back of the President’s head and penetrated nearly through the head. The wound is mortal. The President has been insensible ever since it was inflicted and is now dying… A common single-barred pocket pistol was found on the carpet.
A moving account of the fall of Richmond, pieced together from various eyewitness accounts:
The whole Rebel Government was on the move, and all Richmond desired to be. No thoughts of taking Washington now, or of the flag of the Confederacy flaunting in the breeze over the old capitol! Hundreds of officials were at the depot, to get away from the doomed city. Public documents, the archives of the Confederacy, were hastily gathered up, tumbled into boxes and barrels, and taken to the trains, or carried into the streets and set on fire.
The Atlantic Monthly who witnessed Grant’s maneuvering outside the city of Richmond filed this article:
General Grant’s entire force could not have been less than a hundred and thirty thousand, including Sheridan’s cavalry, the force at City Point, and the provisional brigade at Fort Powhatan. Lee’s whole force was not far from seventy thousand, – or seventy-five thousand, including the militia of Richmond and Petersburg…
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The Atlantic Monthly who witnessed Grant’s maneuvering outside the city of Richmond filed this article:
General Grant’s entire force could not have been less than a hundred and thirty thousand, including Sheridan’s cavalry, the force at City Point, and the provisional brigade at Fort Powhatan. Lee’s whole force was not far from seventy thousand, – or seventy-five thousand, including the militia of Richmond and Petersburg…
Click here to learn why Richmond was chosen as the capitol of the Confederacy
The Atlantic Monthly who witnessed Grant’s maneuvering outside the city of Richmond filed this article:
General Grant’s entire force could not have been less than a hundred and thirty thousand, including Sheridan’s cavalry, the force at City Point, and the provisional brigade at Fort Powhatan. Lee’s whole force was not far from seventy thousand, – or seventy-five thousand, including the militia of Richmond and Petersburg…
Click here to learn why Richmond was chosen as the capitol of the Confederacy
The Atlantic Monthly who witnessed Grant’s maneuvering outside the city of Richmond filed this article:
General Grant’s entire force could not have been less than a hundred and thirty thousand, including Sheridan’s cavalry, the force at City Point, and the provisional brigade at Fort Powhatan. Lee’s whole force was not far from seventy thousand, – or seventy-five thousand, including the militia of Richmond and Petersburg…
Click here to learn why Richmond was chosen as the capitol of the Confederacy
The Atlantic Monthly who witnessed Grant’s maneuvering outside the city of Richmond filed this article:
General Grant’s entire force could not have been less than a hundred and thirty thousand, including Sheridan’s cavalry, the force at City Point, and the provisional brigade at Fort Powhatan. Lee’s whole force was not far from seventy thousand, – or seventy-five thousand, including the militia of Richmond and Petersburg…
Click here to learn why Richmond was chosen as the capitol of the Confederacy
The Atlantic Monthly who witnessed Grant’s maneuvering outside the city of Richmond filed this article:
General Grant’s entire force could not have been less than a hundred and thirty thousand, including Sheridan’s cavalry, the force at City Point, and the provisional brigade at Fort Powhatan. Lee’s whole force was not far from seventy thousand, – or seventy-five thousand, including the militia of Richmond and Petersburg…
Click here to learn why Richmond was chosen as the capitol of the Confederacy
The Atlantic Monthly who witnessed Grant’s maneuvering outside the city of Richmond filed this article:
General Grant’s entire force could not have been less than a hundred and thirty thousand, including Sheridan’s cavalry, the force at City Point, and the provisional brigade at Fort Powhatan. Lee’s whole force was not far from seventy thousand, – or seventy-five thousand, including the militia of Richmond and Petersburg…
Click here to learn why Richmond was chosen as the capitol of the Confederacy
Abraham Lincoln was walking their streets: and worst of all, that plain, honest-hearted man was recognizing the [slaves] as human beings by returning their salutations!
-so wrote the Atlanta Weekly journalist, C.C. Coffin, in this report to his readers concerning the 1865 tour Abraham Lincoln made to a very humiliated Richmond, Virginia.
