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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Closing scenes of the war about Richmond. (search)
hange in the condition of affairs being received at division headquarters, I saw no reason why I should not ride to Richmond for the purpose of attending church. On reaching the city, I was not a little astonished to find it in great commotion. Fields' Division, which had formed the left of the line of three divisions on the north side of the James had been withdrawn and marched through town early in the morning, being called away in haste to re-enforce the south side, where heavy fighting, ito spot and endeavored to impress upon the men the imminent danger of drawing the enemy's fire, it was impossible to keep those fires down. Shortly after midnight all was ready for the final and delicate operation of withdrawing the troops. Fields' Division, as before explained, had been already taken away and there were now but two divisions on the north side of the James—except the cavalry, of the movements of which I am wholly ignorant—Custis Lee's command included, and stretched one mi