. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . XITI THE DEFENSE OF RICHMOND. THE CAPITOL AT RICHMOND UNDEFENDED, -WHILE LEE AND HISREMNANT WERE SWEPT ASIDE—APRIL, 1805 DEFENDING THE CITADEL OF THECONFEDERACY By O. E. Hunt Captain, United States Army Tlie Editors desire to express their grateful acknowledgment toColonel T. M. R. Talcott, C. E., C. S. A., for a critical examination ofthis chapter and many helpful suggestions. Colonel Talcott was majorand aide-de-camp on the staff of General Robert E. Lee, and laterColonel First Regiment Engineer Troops, Army of Northern Virginia,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . XITI THE DEFENSE OF RICHMOND. THE CAPITOL AT RICHMOND UNDEFENDED, -WHILE LEE AND HISREMNANT WERE SWEPT ASIDE—APRIL, 1805 DEFENDING THE CITADEL OF THECONFEDERACY By O. E. Hunt Captain, United States Army Tlie Editors desire to express their grateful acknowledgment toColonel T. M. R. Talcott, C. E., C. S. A., for a critical examination ofthis chapter and many helpful suggestions. Colonel Talcott was majorand aide-de-camp on the staff of General Robert E. Lee, and laterColonel First Regiment Engineer Troops, Army of Northern Virginia,with an intimate knowledge of the Richmond defenses and is able tocorroborate the statements and descriptions contained in the followingpages from liis personal knowledge. AFTER the admission of Virginia to the Confederacy,General Lee was detailed as military adviser to thePresident, and several armies were put in the field—those ofthe Potomac, the Valley, tlie Rappahannock, the Peninsula,and Norfolk. It was not until the spring of 1862, when Rich-mond was threatened hy a large Feder
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