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Turning point · The American Civil War, 1861–1865
Richmond
May 1861 — The Confederacy moves its capital here: industry, prestige, and a fatal geography — two capitals a hundred miles apart fix four years of slaughter between them. It burns and falls on 3 April 1865; Lincoln walks its streets the next day.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — Secession Winter in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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