A reporter’s 1865 trip through the defeated Confederacy revealed a ravaged landscape and bitter people. On a hot day in June 1865, young Harvard graduate John Richard Dennett boarded the steamer Creole for Richmond, Virginia. It was a scant two months since Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox in New York City, bound on April …
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