. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . lOT Pua. CO. A BATTERED RELIC OF COLONIAL DAYS IN PETERSBURG This beautiful old mansion on Bo-lingbroke Street could look back tothe days of buckles and smallclothes; it wears an aggrieved andsurprised look, as if wondering whyit should have received such buffet-ings as its pierced walls, its shatteredwindows and doorway show. Yetit was more fortunate than some ofits near-by neighbors, which werenever again after the visitation ofthe falling shells fit habitations formankind. Many of these handsomeresidences were utterly destroyed,
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . lOT Pua. CO. A BATTERED RELIC OF COLONIAL DAYS IN PETERSBURG This beautiful old mansion on Bo-lingbroke Street could look back tothe days of buckles and smallclothes; it wears an aggrieved andsurprised look, as if wondering whyit should have received such buffet-ings as its pierced walls, its shatteredwindows and doorway show. Yetit was more fortunate than some ofits near-by neighbors, which werenever again after the visitation ofthe falling shells fit habitations formankind. Many of these handsomeresidences were utterly destroyed,their fixtures shattered beyond re-pair; their wainscoting, built whenthe Commonwealth of Virginia was. ruled over by the representative ofKing George, was torn from thewalls and, bursting into flames, madea funeral pjTc of past comforts andmagnificence. The havoc wroughtupon the dwellings of the town washeavy; certain localities sufferedmore than others, and those resi-dents who seemed to dwell in thesafest zones had been ever ready toopen their houses to the sick andwounded of Lees army. As Grantstroops marched in, many pale facesgazed out at them from the win-dows, and at the doorsteps stoodmen whose wounds exempted themfrom ever bearing arms again. THE SHATTERED DOORWAY THE DEMOLISHED DINING-ROOM OF A HANDSOME MANSION HA\ OC OF BOMBARDMENT IN A PETERSBLUG HOME
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