RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, July 18, 1864  

* From the capital of the Confederacy

This issue has: "The War News--General Franklin's Escape--Yankee Transports Sunk--Grant Reported Killed--From North Mississippi--From Georgia" "From Our Forces In Mississippi" "Movements of Our Forces About Washington & Baltimore" "Reported Withdrawal of Our Forces From Before Washington" "Capture of the Railroad Train" "The Defender of Washington" "The Florida Off the Virginia Capes--Capture of Five Yankee Vessels..."
and more, including the always interesting editorial with a decidedly Confederate bias.
Complete as a single sheet issue with a one column masthead (typical in Southern papers late in the war), good condition.

Background: This single-sheet July 18, 1864 edition of the Richmond Examiner is a remarkable historical artifact that captures the Confederacy at a desperate, yet defiantly optimistic, turning point in the American Civil War. Published as a single sheet due to the severe paper shortages caused by the Union blockade, its compressed layout reflects the economic strangulation of Richmond while serving as a vital propaganda tool to maintain civilian morale. The headlines capture a chaotic matrix of factual Confederate successes and frantic wartime rumors: it details the panic instilled in the North by General Jubal A. Early’s recent audacious raid on the gates of Washington, D.C., the maritime havoc wreaked by the commerce raider CSS Florida, and the sensational—though entirely false—rumor that General Ulysses S. Grant had been killed. This specific issue is highly rare and prized by historians and collectors today; it catches the Confederate capital in a brief, illusory moment of hope, right as General Sherman was closing in on Atlanta and Grant's siege of Petersburg was beginning to permanently seal the fate of the Confederacy.