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Tango01 | 12 Sep 2013 3:36 p.m. PST |
"Virginia stood wounded and defeated in the last two years of war. After suffering heavy casualties throughout Grant's Overland Campaign, Virginia's army braced their backs to the south of Richmond at Petersburg in June 1864. To the west, Virginia's lush and vibrant Shenandoah Valley burned, denying much needed food and supplies to the starving at Petersburg. By March 1865, the Petersburg campaign was over. One month later, approaching Federal armies captured the Confederate capitol. Richmond remained a burned-out husk of its former self. The Confederate military was gone and much of its population deserted. It seems that the war would be over. Yet victory did not come without its spoils. In the midst of the desolation and destruction, Lieutenant William J. Ladd of the 13th New Hampshire Regiment stood alone in the deserted city Capitol. According to the History of the regiment, Ladd rode towards Rocketts landing and found a Union cavalryman. The two rowed out onto the James, where they pulled down two flags off of the CSS Hampton, one of two Maury that saw action during the American Civil War. Little did they know, the Confederates rigged the ship to explode. Minutes after they rowed back ashore, the ship went up in a fiery blaze; symbolic of the Navy's demise and that of its most prized city
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