Capitol Gallery

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Black regiment of the Union army entering Richmond, Virginia, after its own citizens burned ithe city, April 3, 1865, near the end of the Civil War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Washington DC in the 1840s

City of Washington from Maryland, showing the Anacostia River joining the Potomac, 1840s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Richmond, Virginia, burned by the Confederates, 1865

Citizens huddled in Capitol Square during the burning of Richmond by its own people, 1865.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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