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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 16 (search)
d from the battle-field. And now, occasionally, we can distinctly see the bursting of shells in the air, aimed too high by the enemy, and exploding far this side of our line of battle. Darkness is upon us, save the glimmer of the stars, as the sulphurous clouds sink into the humid valleys. But the flashes of the guns are visible on the horizon, followed by the deep intonations of the mighty engines of destruction, echoing and reverberating from hill to hill, and through the vast valley of the James in the rear. Hundreds of men, women, and children were attracted to the heights around the city to behold the spectacle. From the Capitol and from the President's mansion, the vivid flashes of artillery could be seen; but no one doubted the result. It is only silence and inaction we dread. The firing ceased at nine o'clock P. M. The President was on the field, but did not interfere with Lee. June 27 At the first dawn of day, the battle recommenced, farther round to the ea
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
t Richmond......Oct. 5, 1869 Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments ratified......Oct. 8, 1869 Act admitting Virginia into the Union without further conditions, approved......Jan. 26, 1870 General Canby turns the State over to the civil authorities......Jan. 27, 1870 Governor Walker proclaims the final reconstruction of the State......Feb. 8, 1870 Capitol at Richmond falls, the galleries giving way; about sixty persons killed and 120 injured......April 27, 1870 Freshets in the James and Shenandoah valleys; $5,000,000 worth of property destroyed......September, 1870 Burning of the Spotswood Hotel at Richmond......Dec. 25, 1870 State board of health organized in Virginia......1872 General Grant has a majority for President of 1,975 over Horace Greeley......1872 State board of immigration established......1873 Completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad between Richmond and Huntington on the Ohio, length 421 miles......1873 Richmond and Atlantic Air li