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English: Richmond After the Evacuation

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Title: History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865. Personal records and reminiscences. The story of the battery from its organization to the present time
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beecher, Herbert W De Morgan, John, ed
Subjects: United States. Army. Connecticut Artillery Battery, 1st (1861-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare Ptg. and Pub. Co., Ltd
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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th its Ionic colonnade, looking down on the businesspart of the city, which was all ablaze. The rear faced the fashionablequarter, an elevated plain, considered the most eligible locality for privateresidences. The Capitol had two flag-staffs, one at either end of the roof.Upon the front one an enormous Confederate flag had been displayed,which, when not extended by the wind, trailed down to the steps below.This had been torn down and had been partially rent into thousands ofpieces to be preserved as souvenirs of the great occasion. Upon the staffin the rear, in full sight of the residences of Jefterson Davis, General Leeand the Confederate sympathizers and magnates, the Stars and Stripes wereflung to the breeze for the first time in four years by Lieutenant De Peyster.That flag had once floated over the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans whenGeneral Butler made it his headquarters, and De Peyster had carried it intoRichmond buckled to his saddle. It was a proud moment for the eighteen-
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FIRST LIGHT HATTI-KV, lS(il-lS()5 (>(>9 year-old New York lieutenant as he raised the flaj^- in the presence ofCaptain Langdon, chief of artillery of the 25th Corps, and the First Con-necticut Light Battery. As the lla;^- rose aloft, displaying its starry unionand unfolding its stripes in the stron;.^ gale which was filling the air withfiery flakes from the adjacent conflagration, it was hailed with deafeningshouts by the redeemed populace, who filled the park and thronged thestreets. Though this flag was the first national ensign raised in token ofthe surrender of the city, it was not the first of the Uni(jn flags to be seenin the streets, for the guidons of the two companies of the 4th Massa-chusetts Cavalry had been raised when Majors Atherton H. Stevens andE. E. Graves had entered the city. Many there were who claimed the honor of raising the first Union flagover the Capitol at Richmond, and while in no wise detracting from thehonors won by the brave Massachusetts men, it is

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