I wonder from time-to-time how many Richmonders realize that the Union didn't burn down the town; the Confederacy did to deprive the Union of the munitions stores. Richmonders were trying to put the fire out because, well, it was destroying their homes.

Portions of the city that were razed weren't rebuilt until into the Nineties (the 1990s).

But somehow, a mythology clings on that the Union were the problem, not the people carrying the torches.