On April 2, 1865 the Confederate government and military abandoned their capital city. The looting of stores and a general lawlessness prevailed downtown. As the last Confederate soldiers left the city they set fire to warehouses and other buildings to prevent the confiscation of war materiel and other valuable supplies by the United States army. The fi…
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