The Confederates burned Richmond as President Davis and his cabinet fled to make sure the Union Army could not use Confederate resources.
During the American Civil War, Richmond became the capital of the Confederate States of America.
On April 2, 1865, more than 25% of the buildings in the city were destroyed by fire after the withdrawal of the Confederate soldiers, who burned all the Confederate resources to make them unusable for the Union.
On April 3, 1865, Ulysses S. Grant and the Union Army captured Richmond, and the state capital was then transferred to Lynchburg. The Army of North Virginia, commanded by Robert Lee retired and surrendered six days later before Grant in the Appomattox Court House, becoming the symbolic end of the war.
<span>freedom for slaves became an official aim of the war</span>
<span>With
the existence ever-evolving and incessant development of technology from the
past to the present century. People have been more digital and electronic, the “wireless
era”. Unlike the technology of the late 1800’s to early 1900’s it’s a tough and
took them a colossal step to actually use the existent device/s during this
age. With the turn of the 21st century, from trains, cars,
airplanes, to telephones, computers, and the most influential technology ever
developed yet is the turn of the internet which significantly boosted the urban
and cosmopolitan growth. How? In the sense of faster and wireless technology,
it promoted urban growth in many aspects –communication, locale and global
services, demands, industrialization, business and trade, and even people’s
lives through transportation, accessibility and ease of use. In the old days,
even letters and courier parcels takes days to be received, months and years to
travel and business was limited in the course of trade. It seemingly made all
the tedious processes of the early centuries to now at one touch to ripple at a
larger scale.</span>
