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The Daily Dispatch: 1862 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...

Several men have been arrested at Jackson, Miss., for purchasing 7,500 head of cattle in Texas with $200,000 in counterfeit money. The cattle were driven to Jackson, and will be taken by the Government and paid for in genuine ‘"white backs."’--The Atlanta Confederacy says: They are mostly of one family and its connections, named, Payne, and are from Kentucky. --They carried out, perhaps, $200,000 to Texas, and purchased some 7,500 head of fine cattle, some twenty
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