DAILY RICHMOND EXAMINER, Virginia, Jan. 27, 1864

• From the capital of the Confederacy

A nice newspaper from the capital of the Confederacy.
The front page includes: "City Intelligence" "The Virginia Legislature" "From Our Army in Tennessee" "From Suffolk" "Telegraphic--Affairs in Louisiana--From Charleston--From the Mississippi" and other smaller items.
The back page has a very lengthy editorial with much talk on the war, bits including: "...The command of General Longstreet was greatly strengthened on entering the country above Knoxville...the failure before Knoxville was due to no fault of General Longstreet but partly to a train of circumstances over which he had no control & partly to the vacillating orders of the ill-starred Bragg. The capture of Knoxville could have brought no permanent advantage. Since the fall of Chattanooga & Cumberland Gap, it is untenable by Confederate arms except at a great cost of troops...".
There is also much reporting from "The Confederate Congress" and several letters that relate to the exchange of prisoners.
Complete as a single sheet newspaper with a banner masthead, never bound nor trimmed with wide margins, nice condition.

Background: This issue is a prime historical artifact owing both to its scarce survival as a fragile two-page single broadsheet—a format dictated by the severe newsprint shortages choking the Confederate press by early 1864—and to its frank, high-level political and military reporting from inside the southern capital. Front-page dispatches tracking troop movements across Tennessee, Suffolk, Louisiana, and the Mississippi capture the Confederacy’s increasingly strained multi-front defense, while detailed reports from the Confederate Congress and the Virginia Legislature highlight internal legislative battles over conscription, economic collapse, and the deteriorating prisoner exchange system. Most notable, however, is the expansive back-page editorial defending General James Longstreet’s failed Knoxville Campaign. Edited by the fiercely independent John Moncure Daniel, the Examiner bypasses battlefield propaganda to deliver a caustic critique of Confederate high command, laying blame directly on the "vacillating orders" of General Braxton Bragg and offering a clear-eyed strategic assessment that Knoxville was no longer tenable following the losses at Chattanooga and Cumberland Gap.