RICHMOND APRIL 1865

Images of Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865. Authorities were under orders to destroy all the city's tobacco, cotton, foodstuffs and alcohol before the Yankees got to it. The fleeing Confederates set fire to several warehouse, the fire got out of control.
The Yanks arrived on the 3rd and found the city smoldering. Many of its citizens were dressed in rages, barefoot and starving. Some 800 buildings were distroyed. The Civil War officially ended on the 12th of April, .... the same day it started 4 years earliers.