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The Daily Dispatch: 1861 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Richmond Times-Dispatch has been the primary daily newspaper of Richmond, Virginia for over the past 150 years. At the time of establishment in 1850, it was one of the very few non-partisan newspapers around and featured relatively unbiased articles. During the Civil War, Richmond became the capital of the Confederate states and the Daily Dispatch decided to promote the Confederate cause. The...

Many are the notes which, in his tuneful course, the wind draws forth from rocks, woods, caverns, heaths and dashing shores."’--For several days past he has sounded no notes in this Intitude but those which are pleasant. We can say to the wind as we cannot to the talkative man, ‘"blow on."’