Union troops quickly moved into Richmond.Then they raised the United States flag over the once proud capital of the Confederacy.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Lee soon discovered that it would not be easy to break out of the trap that Richmond and Petersburg had become.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

In the American Civil War, the North hoped for a quick victory by capturing the southern capital at Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

And President Lincoln sent thousands of troops to chase Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, instead of helping McClellan at Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Within the first few weeks of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress voted to move the capital farther north to Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The Army of the Potomac the strongest of the Union armies had tried to seize Richmond, the Confederate capital.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

He told reporters how the color of his skin kept him out of tennis games as a boy in Richmond.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Douglas Bennett is the president of Earlham College, a liberal arts college in Richmond,Indiana, that actively seeks foreign students.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

And they had to defend a line almost sixty kilometers long, from Richmond to the city of Petersburg.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

He received fifty dollars in prize money and got a job editing the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

At the University of Richmond, teams of graduate students work with companies seeking to enter the American market.

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He said that as soon as he marched toward Richmond, any Confederate soldiers near Washington would withdraw.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Faith Lapidus has our story. Their names were Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain,Ezell Blair, Jr.and David Richmond.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

This week in our series, Larry West and Tony Riggs report on McClellan's move against Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Lee quickly pulled his men back to a place called Cold Harbor, not far from Richmond.

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Yet he was worried. He believed the Confederate force around Richmond was much larger than his.

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Edgar went to live with the family of a wealthy Richmond businessman named John Allan.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

This was the force that would try again to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

He told his officers "I have Lee in one hand and Richmond in the other."

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The campaign had brought the army almost to the edge of Richmond, the Confederate capital.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Lee had organized an army of seventy-five-thousand men at Fredericksburg,Virginia, halfway between Washington and Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

The campaign had brought it almost to the edge of Richmond, the Confederate capital.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

This was almost halfway between the capitals of the opposing sides: Washington and Richmond.

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