“Richmond, Va. General view of the burned district” (Library of Congress)
150 years ago today The Chicago Times reprinted a report from the one-time capital of the Confederacy. Richmond was swarming with former rebel soldiers unable to find work:
The Chicago editors had a hunch that the war’s end meant bounty-jumpers had to resort to antebellum ways to make an illicit buck:
Chicago Times June 15th 1865
