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As of 2005, there are 1384 issues of the Richmond Daily Dispatch available dated between November 1860 and December 1865.  The newspaper was nonpartisan, meaning that much of its revenue came from advertising.  Although all the articles have been digitized, the project directors decided to save money by having only one day of advertisements every two weeks digitized.  Since most ads ran for many days or weeks, this is a substantial sampling of the ads without much loss of fidelity to the original paper.  The collection can be searched or browsed. 

In addition the site contains some other materials.  There is an introduction to the city of Richmond and the newspaper itself during the Civil War era, a chronology of the war, information about the project in general, and technical information about what was required to complete the project from its beginning as a ProQuest microfilm edition of the paper.  Added after 2005 is additional contemporary printed materials, such as the Richmond City Council Minutes, the Hollywood Memorial Association Register of Confederate Dead,  the Virginia Convention Proceedings, and various printed diaries and letters.  Most of this material is accessed through the "Books on Civil War Richmond" section of the site.  There is also a Help Guide that assists with searching approaches, how to interpret search results, and how geneaologists might best approach the site.

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