LYNCHBURG — This weekend, visitors to Appomattox will have the chance to go back in time to April 1865, when Richmond was engulfed in flames. When: Today, 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to ...
Gun smoke billowed over Clover Hill Village in Appomattox this weekend, as the six-acre living history village was transformed into Richmond at the time of its fall to Union troops in April 1865.
One hundred fifty years ago Richmond sat smoldering. Confederate forces had withdrawn from the city to pursue their denouement in Appomattox. Union troops entered the capital of the Confederacy.