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1865 Civil War newspaper NEGR0 SOLDIERS help CAPTURE Confedera RICHMOND Virginia:
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1865 Civil War newspaper NEGR0 SOLDIERS help CAPTURE Confedera RICHMOND Virginia

1865 Civil War newspaper UNION forces finally CAPTURE the Confederate capital city of RICHMOND Virginia- NEGR0 TROPS are the first to enter the city after its fall to Union forces - inv # 2U-408

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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINALweekly Civil War NEWSPAPER,theBennington Banner(VT) datedApril 6, 1865.This original newspaper contains prominent inside page \"stacked\" headlines: \"GLORY ! GLORY! / RICHMONDIS OURS ! /NEGR0 TROOPS FIRST IN ! ... Smash Up of Rebellion\" with very long and very detailed coverage of the Union forces finally capturing the Confederate Capital city of RICHMOND, Virginia, thus leading to the END of the CIVIL WAR.

Interestingly, the first Union troops that entered the captured Confederate city of Richmond were the NEGR0 UNION TROOPS !!

In 1865, Richmond and her surrounding neighbors experienced a long and drawn-out siege. Dubbed the Siege of Petersburg, the siege itself was a multitude of brutal trench warfare battles fought along a line outside of Petersburg, stretching north toward Richmond, and lasting for 292 days. Recently appointed General Ulysses S. Grant was at the mantle of the siege. Grant hoped to break a stalemate between the Union and the Confederacy by taking the fight directly to Robert E. Lee’s army. Grant bottled up Lee’s forces around Richmond and Petersburg, which in turn allowed the Federals to engage with Confederate forces in other sectors, and to seize or destroy southern war materials. Throughout the siege, Grant attempted to attack at Petersburg and Richmond simultaneously, which would apply pressure so that rebel forces could not shift reinforcements to threatened points.

Following the crushing defeat at the Siege of Petersburg, the Confederate government began to evacuate from Richmond. While evacuating the city, Confederate soldiers burned any military supplies that they did not want to fall into Union hands. The fire could not be contained by the fire department due to a breeze that carried the fires across the city. After having no other choice, the mayor of Richmond relinquished control of the city to Union forces to extinguish the fires. On April 4th, President Abraham Lincoln visited Richmond and the former Confederate White House, along with the Virginia State Capital. Lincoln was met with a deafening roar of praise by newly freed slaves all along his route through the fallen Confederate capital. As Richmond finally fell after nearly four years of war, what was left General Robert E. Lee’s army trudged west, eventually finding themselves without supplies and cutoff by Federal forces at Appomattox. Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9th, 1865, with the official surrender ceremonies taking place on April 12th, 1865.

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