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What city was rebuilt after an 1871 fire?
chicago
How did Daniel Sullivan start The Great Chicago fire?
Nobody knows for sure if he DID start the fire, and he has not admitted to it either. He was originally on record as the first person to sound the alarm when the fire started. But later, in court, they decided he couldn't have seen the fire from where he was at the time the fire started. In October 1997, the Chicago City Council recommended that Sullivan be recorded as the person who started the fire, by accident.
What is the origin Chicago's Second City Nickname?
Chicago received the nickname "Second City" in the late nineteenth century after being rebuilt from the great Chicago fire of 1873.
Who burned Richmond during the civil war?
As the Union army advanced on Richmond, Confederate Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell was ordered to destroy the city's tobacco, cotton, and food, in order to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. He packed the supplies into warehouses and set them on fire. Unfortunately, due to the chaos in the city, the fire brigade was unable to contain the blaze and it spread to the rest of the city. The fire was finally extinguished when the Union army arrived. They formed a bucket brigade to put out the fire and tore down nearby buildings to keep it from spreading.
Why did the south have to rebuld after the civil war ended?
The South lay in ruins at the end of the war. Most of the fighting had been done on Southern soil. Little of the Antebellum infrastructure remained. Much had been destroyed in the fighting. Richmond, Vicksburg, and Atlanta had been destroyed as thoroughly by cannon fire and actual fire. The photographs resemble cities that are bombed from the air today. The economy had collapsed. The paper money was so worthless that it was used as tinder to start fires instead of legal tender. Many localities faced starvation because crops had been destroyed and farmland churned up by artillery shelling, and entrenchment by local troops. The South did not just surrender. It suffered catastrophic defeat. The entire southern society collapsed.
