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Map of Richmond Virginia in 1863 -- Rebel Prisons
The Burned District
Union private Robert K. Sneden visited Richmond as a prisoner of war in 1863. Although many of the street names are incorrect, his map shows the area that would be engulfed in flames during the Confederate evacuation on April 3, 1865. More than twenty city blocks from Main Street to the river and all of the bridges across the James were destroyed. |