Through support from an IMLS grant and in collaboration with Project Perseus at Tufts University, the University of Richmond has digitized the Richmond Daily Dispatch newspaper for the Civil War years. The project is still a work in progress. However the newspaper is now available for use and exploration. Its text is fully searchable with special search features that allow users to limit to personal name, place name, organization name, military unit, and more. Page images complement the searchable text.

Please bring this versatile new resource to the attention of faculty who study or teach about the Civil War era at your school or college. We welcome comments and feedback on this project; just click on the survey link on the newspapers homepage at http://dlxs.richmond.edu/d/ddr/index.html. We hope this will be useful to a broad audience encompassing scholars, students, genealogists, Civil War buffs, re-enactors, and more. Please bring it to the attention of other librarians and interested parties. Feel free to add links to it in Civil War and history Web sites.

This project was the subject of a presentation at the Virginia Library Association conference on Friday, November 10, 2006.