Major General James G. Meade, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Potomac, enters the abandoned Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
[restored 3/12/2025]
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 303.
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