(CIVIL WAR NEWSPAPER) The first issue of the Richmond Eveni

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FIRST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN UNION-OCCUPIED RICHMOND (CIVIL WAR--NEWSPAPER.) The first issue of the Richmond Evening Whig under Union rule. 2 pages, 18 1/4 x 12 inches, on one sheet; foxing, folds, small blue ink stain, contemporary ink inscription in upper margin reading "First Union paper published in Richmond." Richmond, VA, 4 April 1865

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Publication of this newspaper was "resumed this afternoon, with the consent of the military authorities," under conditions laid out by the Union military governor which "will be cheerfully and faithfully complied with." An article notes that two of the town's newspaper presses were destroyed in the previous day's fire, including the Dispatch. A long article describes the evacuation and burning of Richmond.