3-017-092 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Richmond, Virginia: ruins of the railway bridge, 1865. 'The scenes of havoc and ruin in the city of Richmond after the great conflagration which ensued upon the retirement of the Confederate army and Government, in the first week of April, have already been made the subjects of some of our Illustrations...[Engraving] of the ruins of the buildings of the Richmond and Petersburg Railway, which here crosses the James River by a bridge...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.