The ''Richmond Whig'' was a newspaper published in

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, between 1824 and 1888. The paper had a variety of titles, and it is not easy to determine which title was published in which years: ''Constitutional Whig, Daily Richmond Whig, Daily Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, Evening Whig, Richmond Daily Whig, Richmond Weekly Whig, Richmond Whig & Commercial Journal, Richmond Whig & Public Advertiser.'' The newspaper was anti-secessionist, and was not published during the

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, when

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seceded and joined the Confederacy. When it resumed publication in April of 1865, after

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troops entered Richmond on April 3, it pointed out that when the war began, the last place in Richmond where "the Star-Spangled Banner" still flew was on the ''Whig'' building, and that the

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never flew over it. When the Union flag had to come down it was replaced with a new Virginia state flag, the

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's first flag. In the second issue after republication began, under the signature "Patriot" it published its view of the war: It also pointed out that it was "The God of Justice works by means, and perhaps there can be no more suggestive instance of his visitation than a corps of colored troops, under the gallant odfreyWeitzel, was the first to plant the flag of freedom over the Rebel Capital."

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