Template:On this day/March 10

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

March 10:

• 1865 – Civil War: Sheridan's army departed Scottsville and continued along the James River to Columbia, leaving Scottsville ransacked and charred. It would take forty years for the town's economy to recover.
• 1871 – Benjamin Franklin Ficklin (aged 43) died in Georgetown, D.C.
• 1882 – Land is purchase for a synagogue on the corner of Market and Church (now Second) Streets, a site now occupied by the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library.
• 1910 – Thomas L. Rosser, Confederate major general referred to as the "Savior of the Valley" by the Southern press, died at his estate home Rugby Hall.
• 1948 – Fray's Mill at Advance Mills, north of the city, was destroyed by fire early today. John Fray began operation of the mill in 1833.