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Image: RuinsofRichmondApril1865

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Description: Smoke is still rising from the ruins of Richmond, Virginia after surrendering on April 3, 1865 following the Union victory at the Siege of Petersburg. Union cavalry mounts with carbines visible are hitched in the foreground.
Title: RuinsofRichmondApril1865
Credit: File from The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Four, The Cavalry. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 260.
Author: Unknown
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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