A crippled locomotive in Richmond

[ca. 1865]

From "War Memories" catalog: When the Rebel army were forced to evacuate their Capitol at Richmond, they set fire to the city, exploded the powder in their magazines and did their worst to entirely destroy the city. The Union troops came in as conquerors and immediately set to work with a will to extinguish the fires and save as much of the city as possible, but before the fires could be quenched, over 700 buildings were in ruins. This is a view of the depot of the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad. The ruined building and the ruined locomotive shows what destruction war brings.