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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
less cause. At nine o'clock, the Virginia Legislature fled from the City to Columbia, in canal boats. The Congress had already departed, and all that remained of the Confederate Government, at midnight, was the War Department, represented by Major Melton. The gold of the Louisiana banks, that had been sent to Richmond for safety, and that of the, Richmond banks, was sent away by the Danville road Early in the day. with the darkness came greater confusion, alarm, and dread; and then, when ireeze from the South, and such fires might produce the destruction of the whole City. A committee of the common council went to the War office to remonstrate with whomsoever might represent the Department, against the execution of the order. Major Melton rudely replied, in the cruel spirit evinced by Davis earlier in the evening, just before he left, when a similar remonstrance was offered to him, that their statement that the burning of the warehouses would endanger the City, was a cowardly p