Southern perspective:
Residents walking through the ruins of the city of Richmond, VA. Serving as the Confederate capitol during most of the Civil War, the city was burned in 1865 when General Grant's Union troops were about to overrun the Confederate army. While evacuating, the Confederate soldiers were told to burn everything that they could not carry, and fires destroyed large portions of the city. Photograph taken in April of 1865. (Alexander Gardner/LOC)