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Richmond is Ours! Words by A. J. H. Duganne. Music by Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst. New York: Horace Waters, 1865.

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After a long siege, Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, fell to General Grant and the Union Army on 2 April 1865.  The song Richmond is Ours! was issued soon after Union troops captured the city.

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