August 1864 News
This page of Beyond the Crater: The Siege of Petersburg Online contains newspaper articles from a wide variety of American newspapers for the month of August 1864. Each article pertains in some way to the Siege of Petersburg and has been transcribed exactly as it appeared in whichever newspaper it was published in. Misspellings, grammatical errors, errors in fact, and any other possible errors have not been changed. We hope these articles provide readers with a look at the Petersburg Campaign as Americans read about in it in August 1864.
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- NP: August 1, 1864 New York Tribune: The Operations of Wednesday
- NP: August 2, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: Our Army Before Petersburg
- NP: August 2, 1864 Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: Casualties 100th PA
- NP: August 3, 1864 Sandusky (VT) Register: Army Letter, 5th USCT
- NP: August 4, 1864 Baltimore Clipper: Sheridan’s Cavalry
- NP: August 4, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: Col. Marshall Captured, 14th NYHA
- NP: August 4, 1864 Windham County Transcript: From the Eleventh (CT) Regiment
- NP: August 5, 1864 Vermont Phoenix: Our Army Correspondence, 17th Vermont at the Crater
- NP: August 8, 1864 South Danvers (MA) Wizard: Naval Correspondence
- NP: August 9, 1864 Detroit Free Press: From the Seventh Infantry
- NP: August 9, 1864 Windham County Transcript: Twenty-ninth (CT) Regiment
- NP: August 11, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: The 22nd New York Cavalry
- NP: August 11, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: The War
- NP: August 12, 1864 Kennebec Journal: The Colored Troops of the Ninth Corps
- NP: August 13, 1864 Detroit Free Press: From the Twentieth Infantry
- NP: August 13, 1864 Irish American Weekly: War Correspondence, 5th NH
- NP: August 16, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: July 26, 1864 March
- NP: August 16, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: More on The First Deep Bottom Operation
- NP: August 16, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: The First Deep Bottom Operation
- NP: August 16, 1864 New York Evening Post: The Colored Troops at Petersburg
- NP: August 16, 1864 Vicksburg Daily Herald: From Before Petersburg, Va (Battle of the Crater)
- NP: August 18, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: War News
- NP: August 18, 1864 Pittsfield (MA) Sun: Extract of a letter from a member of Co. E, 27th Mass. Vols.
- NP: August 20, 1864 Irish-American (NY): The Petersburg Failure
- NP: August 23, 1864 Detroit Free Press: From the Seventh Infantry
- NP: August 25, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: The War
- NP: August 26, 1864 Augusta (GA) Daily Constitutionalist: Letter from Anderson’s Brigade
- NP: August 27, 1864 Quincy Patriot: 24th Massachusetts Itinerary
- NP: August 27, 1864 Quincy Patriot: Camp of 56th [Mass] Reg.
- NP: August 31, 1864 Augusta (GA) Daily Constitutionalist: Letter from Cobb’s Legion
- NP: August 31, 1864 Daily Eastern Argus: A Soldier’s Letter
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