Attached is an account of the sacking 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.”
Click here to read about General Grant’s march on Richmond.
Click here to learn why Richmond was chosen as the capitol of the Confederacy.
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