Claude Merchant's April 1865 poem summed up the feelings in Pottsville, Pennsylvania after the Confederate capital fell to US forces.
“Richmond has fallen! Richmond is ours!” – A victory poem from April 1865
A Confederate proposal to invade and burn the Coal Region in the summer of 1863
The Richmond Whig told its readers that Lee had a plan to enter Pennsylvania's Coal Region during his 1863 invasion.
A visit to the ruins of a Yuengling brewery in Richmond, Virginia
On a recent trip to Richmond, we visited the former site of a Yuengling brewery.
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