Mayo Bridge
Information about the Mayo Bridge in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1891, "First Burial of General Hill's Remains."; Hill, G. Powell. Southern Historical Society Papers 31 (1891), pp. 183-186.
1893, Battles & Leaders Vol. 4 (1893): pp. 725-726; Sulivane, Clement. "The Fall of Richmond: No. I -The Evacuation,"
1897-04-25, Richmond Dispatch; "Burning of Richmond: Incidents of the City's Evacuation Described." By R. T. W. Duke
1899-08-17, National Tribune; “A Union Man in Richmond;” part five of serial account. Describes the scene in Richmond in early to mid-1863. Mentions hedonistic activity at the Exchange, Ballard and Spotswood hotels; prostitution and gambling flourishing
1900-07-12, National Tribune; good account of the fall of Richmond in 1865, by a boy who lived on Church Hill; notes that advancing Union troops were fired upon from convalescent patients from Chimborazo
1900-09-27, National Tribune; "The Fall of Richmond" Part one of Hiram Peck's [10th CT Inf] excellent memoir describing advancing on Richmond from Fort Burnham on April 3, 1865, and the occupation of Richmond.
1909, Confederate Veteran, Volume 17, p. 474; H. H. Sturgis, “About the Burning of Richmond,”
1935-03-31, Richmond Times-Dispatch; lengthy and important recollection of “old-time” sand-lot baseball in Richmond. Notes that one of the old ball parks was on the site of the Lee statue on Monument Avenue

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