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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: E ARLY that Monday morning, the First Brigade (Devens's Division), Twenty-fourth Army Corps, Army of the James, which had been lying in the trenches at the point where the Union works approached nearest to the city, and was the triumphant first to cross the forsaken Confederate works, had led the column in the formal entry, and marched up Main Street. Near the Old Market they turned into Broad Street, and, to the music of four regimental bands played gallantly? music that carried despair into still dwellings of a dead city like Pompeii, wherein were huddled old men, women, and children turned to stone?proceeded in fine style to the City Hall, where they reported to the Major-Gencral commanding the troops operating on the north side of the James, who had previously entered with a small headquarters force. At 8 A. M. the Stars and Bars had been hauled down from the flagstaff above the Capitol and the Stars and Stripes run up. What this meant to captors and captured was at once lost to sight in the immediate terror of the great fire. General Weitzel had taken up his position on the platform of the high steps at the east front of the Capitol building, and there, looking downinto a gigantic crater, suffocated and blinded with the vast columns of smoke and cinders which rolled down and enveloped the place, he assigned to Brevet Brigadier-General Edward H. Ripley the apparently hopeless task of stopping the conflagration and suppressing the mob of Confederate stragglers, released criminals, and negroes who had far advanced in pillaging the city on his arrival. His orders were to strain every nerve to save the city, crowded with women and children and the sick and wounded of the Army of Northern Virginia, orders given amid a contest of innumerable artillery, like that which preced...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217574730 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217574734 |
| Weight | 0.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 166 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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