. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . fWashington, and McDowells orders to unite with McClellanwere recalled. The roads in and about Richmond radiate from that citylike the spokes of a wheel. One of these is the Williams-burg stage-road, crossing the Chickahominy at BottomsBridge, only eleven miles from Richmond. It was along thisroad that the Federal corps of Keyes and Heintzelman hadmade their way. Their orders were to go prepared for bat-tle at a moments notice and to bear in mind that the Ar
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . fWashington, and McDowells orders to unite with McClellanwere recalled. The roads in and about Richmond radiate from that citylike the spokes of a wheel. One of these is the Williams-burg stage-road, crossing the Chickahominy at BottomsBridge, only eleven miles from Richmond. It was along thisroad that the Federal corps of Keyes and Heintzelman hadmade their way. Their orders were to go prepared for bat-tle at a moments notice and to bear in mind that the Armyof the Potomac has never been checked. Parallel to this road, and about a mile to the northward, TWO KEEPERS OF THEGOAL The North expected General Mc-Clellan to possess himself of thiscitadel of the Confederacy in June,1862, and it seemed likely the ex-pectation would be realized. Inthe upper picture we get a nearview of the State House at Rich-mond, part of winch was occupiedas a Capitol by the ConfederateCongress during the war. In thisbuilding were stored the recordsand archives of the ConfederateGovernment, many of which were. lost during the hasty retreat ofPresident Davis and his cabinetat the evacuation of Richmond,April, 1865. Below, we see thecity of Richmond from afar, withthe Capitol standing out boldly onthe hill. McClellan was not des-tined to reach this coveted goal,and it would not have meant thefall of the Confederacy had he thendone so. When Lincoln enteredthe building in 1865, the Con-federacy had been beaten as muchby the blockade as by the opera-tions of Grant and Sherman withvastly superior torces. THE GOAL—THE CONFEDERATE CAPITOL
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