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Nebraska Advertiser
Auburn, Brownville, Calvert, Nemaha County, Nebraska
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Union army captures Richmond and Petersburg after battles on the 6th, 7th, and 8th; Confederate army retreats; Grant pursues Lee; Sherman's army near Goldsboro; Mobile under investment; rebellion nearly defeated with 12,000 prisoners and 50 cannon taken.
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Grant is pursuing Lee towards the Danville road, and it is only a question of time which gets there first, and Sheridan's cavalry are swift-footed, as Lee knows to his sorrow.
Not a word is said, in all the dispatches, about Jefferson Davis. Abraham Lincoln is at the front. Sherman's army, when last heard from, were operating in the vicinity of Goldsboro. Mobile is being slowly but surely invested by our army. There is but little doubt that the rebellion is virtually whipped out, a stand may be made by the rebels, but no success can possibly set them on a war footing again.
Our captures, in the fighting before Richmond, will be about 12,000 prisoners and 50 cannon.
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Richmond
Event Date
6th, 7th And 8th
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richmond fallen; petersburg in union possession; 12,000 prisoners and 50 cannon captured; rebellion virtually whipped out
Event Details
Richmond, the Capital of the Confederacy, has fallen after the Confederate army was defeated by Union forces on the 6th, 7th, and 8th and retreated. Petersburg is in Union possession. Grant pursues Lee towards the Danville road with Sheridan's swift cavalry. No mention of Jefferson Davis; Lincoln at the front. Sherman's army operating near Goldsboro. Mobile being invested by Union army.