Are there any primary source documents or books about the burning of Richmond in 1865?

by conpermiso

I'm curious to hear from or about the men who burned their own city to the ground to prevent the Federal forces from taking the city.

Jizzlobber58

The reports you're looking for are contained in "The War of the Rebellion - Series 1, Volume XLVI, Parts 1-3"

At one point I was able to pull PDF files of parts 1 and 2 off of google books. Currently I can find, Part 1 here, Part 2 here. For some reason I still can't find part 3 up there, which means my collection of the series is woefully incomplete.

Either way, look under Richmond in the indexes of those two books. Part II seems to have more Confederate reports.

Edit: If you have 5 gigs to spare, you too can download the 101 available volumes of this series so you don't have to keep hunting through the bad returns to find the one you need.