The capture of Richmond plucks out the very heart of the rebellion. It is not enough to say that the rebel capital has been taken. Richmond bore a much more important relation to the rebellion ...

Grant and Lee on the Capture of Richmond. Share full article. Jan. 26, 1865. ... See the article in its original context from January 26, 1865, Page 4 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

April 6, 1865 : the president’s second visit, to Richmond after its capture. His first visit was on April 4th, the day following the entry of the Union army.↩↩ ...

Charles A. Cook who was serving with Company G of the 1st Veteran Volunteer Engineers continued his diary entries in April of 1865. On April 3, 1865, the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia ...

A Narrative of Capture and Captivity/Prison-Life in the South: At Richmond, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Columbia, Charlotte, Raleigh, Goldsborough, and Andersonville, During the Years 1864 and 1865.

Near the anniversary of the capture of Richmond by British General Benedict Arnold, a walking tour group explored the grounds of Chimborazo Park on Sunday morning.

There’s a lot of black people cheering the Union troops as they march in,” said historian Bert Dunkerly, a ranger at Richmond National Battlefield Park, who will lead a real-time tour of the ...

It was May 10, 1865 when the unit commanded by the Allegan native captured the fugitive Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, outside Irwinville, Ga.