“The peculiar population of that suburb were gathered on the sidewalk; bold, dirty-looking women, who had evidently not been improved by four years of military association; dirtier, if possible, children; and here and there were skulking scoundrelly-looking men…hard at it, pillaging the burning city.”
From ‘To Appomattox–Nine April Days, 1865’ by Burke Davis, Eastern Acorn Press, 1959, 433 pgs., on the fall of Richmond.
