| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Richmond Burning: The Last Days of the Confederate Capital. By Nelson Lankford. (New York: Viking, 2002. viii, 312 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-670-03117-8.)

Surely there is no more dramatic moment in the story of the Confederacy than the fall of its capital, Richmond. Barely were the last trains carrying government officials and archives out of town on April 2 and the last of the city's military forces safely across the James River than the advance elements of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Union juggernaut rode into town from the other side. Caught between them were the thousands of citizens who did not or could not flee, huddled in their darkened homes or standing quietly defiant on the streets, looking sullenly on as the Yankees passed down their avenues. And in the background lay the awful sight, sound, and smell of a third of the city going up in flames, an area that to this day preserves the trauma of the moment in the way it is still referred to by residents as "the burned district."

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