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Evacuation Fire
The Evacuation Fire destroyed roughly 1,000 buildings. It spread from here to the James River, and from the foot of Gambles Hill east to beyond 14th Street.
The first tires were set by Confederate forces just after daybreak Monday April 3, ...
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Richmond Evacuation Fire
After midnight on 3 April 1865, Confederate
soldiers set fire to several tobacco warehouses
nearby on orders from Lt. Gen. Richard S.
Ewell, as the army evacuated Richmond and
marched west. Two distinct fires spread
rapidly throughout the commercial and industrial sections of the capital. ...
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