Sittin' around in Richmond

Wondering why the confederacy put their capital so close to the northern border. You'd think they would have kept it in Montgomery or some other city decently far away from union marching distance. It's cool flying over this area and seeing how the landscape effected the warfare tactics of the time. It's also interesting to see how much area in the east is still pretty much a wilderness.
Tonight: weird and impossible dreams of national development.