A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868
CHAPTER XXVII.—IN AND ABOUT PETERSBURG.
From Richmond to the “Cockade City.”—Evening with Judge ——.—Story of Two Brothers.—Shelling of Petersburg.—Black Population.—Ride with Colonel E——.—The “Crater.”—Forts Hell and Damnation.—Forts Morton and Stedman.—“Petersburg Express.”—A Beautiful but Silent City.—Signal Tower. 205