The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . : sIBi HI. 1865.] RICHMOND. 507 the Twenty-Fifth Army Corps, with detachments from companies E and H, started upon a reconnoissance of the enemysintrenchments. He found them evacuated and the gunsspiked. A deserter piloted the detachment safely over the tor-pedoes which had been planted in front of them. A mile anda half out from the city, Major Stevens met a barouche andfive men mounted bearing a white flag. The party consistedof the Mayor, Judge
The boys of '61; or, Four years of fightingPersonal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond . : sIBi HI. 1865.] RICHMOND. 507 the Twenty-Fifth Army Corps, with detachments from companies E and H, started upon a reconnoissance of the enemysintrenchments. He found them evacuated and the gunsspiked. A deserter piloted the detachment safely over the tor-pedoes which had been planted in front of them. A mile anda half out from the city, Major Stevens met a barouche andfive men mounted bearing a white flag. The party consistedof the Mayor, Judge Meredith of the Confederate States Court,and other gentlemen, who tendered the surrender of the went into the city and was received with joy by the col-ored people, who shouted their thanks to the Lord that theYankees had come. He proceeded to the Capitol, ascendedthe roof, pulled down the State flag which was flying, and raisedthe guidons of the two companies upon the. building. The flames were spreading, and the people, horror-struck andstupefied by the events of the night, were powerless to arrestthem. On, on, from dwelling to warehouse, fro
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