THE RISE AND FALL OF A CAPITAL
On the eve of the Civil War, Richmond, Virginia's capital since 1780, bustled with the commerce, politics, and enterprise of an active southern city. The Dispatch, one of the city's assorted newspapers, reported on local and world events, creating snapshots of daily life. Both the city and newspaper would experience major changes by early 1865, and both would be left in ruins by April of that year. Using the transcriptions of Richmond's non-partisan newspaper and other contextual documents as guides, discover how dramatically the city, and thus the people and fortunes of the south, changed during the course of the war.
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