The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, April 2. On this date in 1865, Jefferson Davis was attending Sunday services at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Grace Street in Richmond when he received word that Petersburg had fallen. The president of the Confederacy knew what this meant: Nothing could now stop the Union Army, which was only 25 miles away.

 

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