. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 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
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 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. (OT PUB. CO. In tliis roiiin. noarl.\- a hundred years before, the red-coated officers of His Britannic Majestys troops had gathered at the longmaliogany tal)le. wliich. with the glittering sideboards and the old portraits, had furnished the apartment. They were unbiddenguests and were iinaders. It was with enforced courtesy that the lady of the house, whose husband and two sons were wearingthe blue and buff of the Continental .\rmy. received them. And now, in 1865, this ladys descendents, the heirs to the old mansion,hiiYv been forced to move by another invasion that brought home to them the stern decrees of war. The two maiden ladies of proudlineage had been forced in the early stages of the siege to move their belongings to a safer place. The house had been strippedof furnishings; against the noble old walls the Federal guns had knocked for admittance, presenting no billet of lodgment with asweeping bow, but rudely bursting in. .\fter the war was over, its occupants came back: but
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