The Capitol Disaster : A Chapter of Reconstruction in Virginia (Classic Reprint) by George L Christian
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Author: George L Christian
Page Count: 58 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781331722977
File size: 46 Mb
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Richmond is, and we think, of right ought to be, regarded as one of the most historic cities in this country. Apart from its pre-revolutionary, revolutionary and post-revolutionary fame and incidents (some of which, although meagerly recorded, are full of interest), it was for four years of terrible war, the Capital and Citadel of the South, during which period, nearly every movement of the armies of the North were directed at its capture or destruction, and during much of that time, it was, literally
"A looming bastion fringed with fire."
When deeds of daring and devotion could no longer prevail against "overwhelming numbers and resources," and the City had to be surrendered by the Confederates; two-thirds of the business portion were left in ashes, and the rest of it almost in a condition of starvation and desolation.
In the defence of the city, its people were subjected to sufferings and sacrifices rarely endured, and they were, almost daily, the witnesses of scenes and experiences which, at other times, and amid other environments, would have been deemed disasters or calamities. Whilst referring to these things, the purposes of this paper are not to describe any of them; but merely to show, why one of the two great historical disasters in the life of the city (each about equally destructive of human life, and productive of human sorrow and suffering) has left a more lasting and vivid impression on its history than the other.
The first of these two memorable disasters occurred on December 26th, 1811, when the "Richmond Theatre" was destroyed by fire; when seventy-two human lives were lost (among them the then Governor of the State), and many others were injured in escaping from the flames.
The second occurred on April 27th, 1870, when the floors of the court room and clerk's office of the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State (then located in the Capitol building) fell, precipitating a crowd of about three hundred and fifty men about twenty-five feet into a "pit of destruction," killing sixty-two and wounding two hundred and fifty-one more, some of them among the most prominent and useful citizens in the land.
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