on-to-richmond

Updated: July 19, 2026

If anything had been needed to inspire hope, to arouse patriotic pride, the appearance of Johnston's army as it passed through Richmond on its way to the Peninsula to foil once more the "On-to-Richmond" plans of the enemy would have more than sufficed. Oh, what days were those, which came unheralded, to write their history in letters of fire upon the records of the city of Richmond!

Fannie A. Beers - Memories: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War