The fall of Richmond in 1865 signaled the end for the Confederacy
When the Confederate capital of Richmond fell to Union forces in 1865, it marked the symbolic and strategic collapse of the South, effectively ending four years of bloody civil war.
Union troops marched into Richmond, Virginia, on April 3, 1865, finding the city engulfed in flames set by retreating Confederate soldiers. The fall of the capital forced General Robert E. Lee to flee westward, leading to his final surrender at Appomattox just days later.
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