Richmond

Richmond is the capital and fourth largest city in the US state of Virginia, having served as the state’s capital since 1780. Richmond also served as the capital of the Confederacy for most of its brief existence from May 1861 until April 1865. During the war, Confederate president Jefferson Davis even considered separating Richmond from the state of Virginia itself as the Confederacy's own federal district to rival the Union's District of Columbia, which housed the Union's capital, Washington, D.C., and Davis had also planned to relocate Virginia's capital to the nearby city of Petersburg, 25 miles south of Richmond to accommodate this proposed change, however, due to the Confederacy losing the war, these plans never came to fruition, and Richmond remains the capital of Virginia today.
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Category:American Civil War