<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> forces capture <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_Virginia" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Richmond, Virginia">Richmond, Virginia</a>, the capital of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" id="mwSg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate States of America</a>.<sup about="#mwt53" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./April_3#cite_note-8" id="mwSw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwTA">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt50" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMcPherson2006">McPherson, James (2006). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=GXfGuNAvm7AC" id="mwByk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwByo">Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era</i></a>. New York: Oxford University Press. p.<span id="mwBys" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>837. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwByw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBy0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780195038637" id="mwBy4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780195038637"><bdi id="mwBy8">9780195038637</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt50" class="Z3988" id="mwBzA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Battle+Cry+of+Freedom%3A+The+Civil+War+Era&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=837&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2006&amp;rft.isbn=9780195038637&amp;rft.aulast=McPherson&amp;rft.aufirst=James&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DGXfGuNAvm7AC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AApril+3"></span></span>