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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 19, 1862
Page 2 of the May 19, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch features an editorial on the importance of defending Richmond, a report from a participant in the fight at Drury's Bluff, a column of Local Matters, news from the May 16 General Assembly of Virginia, a letter recounting a meeting with a "noble patriot" in Central Georgia and news of the fight in Giles County.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 16, 1862
Page 2 of the May 16, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch featured updates as the war creeps into the Richmond area, on efforts to defend the city. "The public spirit here is the best imaginable. The people are ready to make any sacrifice to defend the place, and are entirely averse to surrendering it at all to the gunboats," the staff wrote. The day's news also includes updates from Hampton Roads.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 15, 1862
The May 15, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes editorials about the perilous situation in Richmond and the ferocity of the enemy, a letter about the April 16th fight at Dam No. 1, a column of Local Matters and a letter with news of how wounded Confederate soldiers were treated at Williamsburg.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 14, 1862
The May 14, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes an editorial about the Provisional Governor of Kentucky, a Virginian by birth, a column of Local Matters, and reports on battles at Kernstown, Williamsburg and West Point.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 13, 1862
The May 13, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes news of the destruction of the Confederate ironclad Virginia, an editorial suggesting the crew of same be put at once to the defence of the river batteries, a column of Local Matters, correspondence from the Rappahannock line and an extensive report from two days of battles at Williamsburg by the correspondent known as Potomac.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 12, 1862
The May 12, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch contains many reports of military action on the Peninsula as well as list of casualties. In addtion, find reports from Charleston and Cairo.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 10, 1862
Page 2 of The Richmond Daily Dispatch of Saturday, May 10, 1862 included: an editorial on the prowess of the CSS Virginia; a proclamation from Confederate president Jefferson Davis; a column of Local Matters; a report on the extra session of the General Assembly; Gen. P.T. Beauregard's official report on the Battle of Shiloh; and a notice of the resignation of Del. Charles Friend of Chesterfield.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 8, 1862
The May 8, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch featured updates from Nashville, as well as detailed reporting on discussions in Congress about the role of slavery in the war - both leading up to the war and during wartime.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 7, 1862
The May 7, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes an editorial comparing Bonaparte in Ulm and McClellan in Richmond, an editorial about Yankees in the South, news from an extra session of the General Assembly of Virginia, the text of Governor Letcher's report to the General Assembly, news from Yorktown and a letter purporting to reveal Gen. Burnside's plans for Norfolk and Portsmouth.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 6, 1862
The May 6, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes editorials about effective use of the bayonet, advice to invade enemy territory, Southern Patriotism and the Union's Confiscation Bill, as well as a column of Local Matters and news of funds raised to assist the family of the late Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 5, 1862
The May 5, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes an editorial about defending cities and countryside, a proclamation from Confederate President Jefferson Davis calling for a day of prayer, a column of Local Matters, a discussion of the Confiscation Bill in the Federal Congress, Northern reports of Confederate defenses on the Peninsula and a tribute to a soldier, Private George W. West.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 3, 1862
The May 3, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes a column of Local Matters, news from Northern papers, and reports from Wheeling, Yorktown and Richmond.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 2, 1862
The Richmond Daily Dispatch of Friday, May 2, 1862 included: a report from the New York Herald on impending battles in Yorktown and Cornith, Miss.; reports from the Western campaign near Cornith; a reprint of a London Herald editorial on the English opinion of American affairs; Yankee speculation of the visit of French count Mercier to Richmond; and a column and a half of Military Affairs.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - May 1, 1862
The May 1, 1862, edition of the Richmond Daily Dispatch includes more detail on New Orleans, as well as an update on fighting at the Potomac and in Yorktown. It aslo includes a medical device - a new type of tournqquet - expected to revolutionize life on the battlefield.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 30, 1862
The April 30, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes editorials about "Yankee Jealousy," Col. Wm. C Scott's innocence and military duty for foreign born citizens. The Local Matters column includes an account of the trial and execution of Timothy Webster as a spy; the first attempt to hang Webster was thwarted by a "defective cotton rope." A condensation of proceedings in the Federal Congress includes reports from the Senate and House of Representatives.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 29, 1862
The April 29, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch front page was devoted to news of the war, including a correspondence from "Quel Qu'un" in Memphis, an editorial from the New Orleans Bee, news of a Union advance near Tazewell, a report on enemy preparations below New Orleans, an update on affairs near Corinth from the Atlanta Commonwealth, and an accounting of property surrendered with Fort Pulaski from the Savannah Republican.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 28, 1862
The April 28, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes a letter picked up after the battle of Shiloh, a dispatch about the Yankees in Winchester, a column of Local Matters, a report from Yorktown that was originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a Chicago Tribuneaccount from Shiloh, and speculation about whether Beauregard will fight again in the vicinity of Corinth.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 26, 1862
The April 26, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes an editorial about the negative impact of a pessimistic outlook, an editorial about the conduct of General Field in Fredericksburg, news from the Peninsula, a column of Local Matters, the particulars of the Conscription Act and the contents of a general order issued by "the gallant Beauregard."
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 25, 1862
Page 2 of the Richmond Daily Dispatch from April 25, 1862, featured reports on the condition of Confederate troops as the Yankees "are gathering fast around us, And that we are getting into what might be called a very light place. They are at all points of the compass, and … are preparing to draw in their folds and crush us to death." The day's news also included reports from Europe, and update on the Monitor and the Merrimac and Island No. 10.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 24, 1862
The April 24, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes an editorial on Yankee courage, a description of the Great Wall of China, three dispatches from correspondent "Quel Qu'un" on the Battle of Shiloh and a column of Local Matters.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 23, 1862
The April 23, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes an editorial espousing use of interior military lines, an editorial about sovereign states in the Confederacy, correspondence about threats a minister received from a Northern General in Nashville, Tenn., a column of Local Matters, an accounting of the 12th regiment in Richmond, and an exchange of letters between General Beauregard and General Grant.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 22, 1862
The April 22, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes an editorial on the need for information quickly about military actions, an editorial encouraging officials to quickly determine the fate of Virginians held on suspicion of disloyalty and an editorial about poisoned cannon balls in addition to a column of Local Matters, news of an extraordinary escape and an update on Northern financial matters.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 21, 1862
The April 21, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes editorials on censoring the news and ironclads in England, news from the Confederate Congress, a column of Local Matters and several accounts of the first day of battle at Shiloh.
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Interactive: The Daily Dispatch - April 19, 1862
The April 19, 1862, Richmond Daily Dispatch includes numerous extracts from Northern newspapers with reports from Beaufort, N.C., Newbern, N.C., the Peninsula, and from Gen. Fremont's department in Wheeling and a report from the April 9 session of the Federal Congress.
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