July 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 July 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 July 1864.
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- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: 2nd VA Cavalry at Trevilian Station and Nance’s Shop
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Editorial: Gen. Grant and Richmond
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Latest News from the North, June 28
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, June 29
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Late Yankee Raid on the Danville Railroad
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Situation at Petersburg, June 29
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 28-29
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Virginia Cavalry
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Yankee Cavalry Raids
- NP: July 2, 1864 Irish-American (NY): The Irish Brigade, June 22
- NP: July 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, June 29-July 1
- NP: July 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Situation at Petersburg, June 28-30
- NP: July 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 29-July 1
- NP: July 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: “Yankees Behaving Badly” on the Wilson-Kautz Raid (Editorial)
- NP: July 2, 1864 Stoughton (MA) Sentinel: Army Correspondence
- NP: July 4, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Grant’s Rumored All-Out Assault on Petersburg, July 4 (Editorial)
- NP: July 4, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, July 1
- NP: July 4, 1864 Richmond Examiner: War News, June 30-July 4
- NP: July 5, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: From the 8th N.Y. Artillery
- NP: July 5, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Latest from the North, July 1
- NP: July 5, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, July 3-4
- NP: July 5, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Situation at Petersburg, June 28-July 3
- NP: July 5, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, July 4
- NP: July 5, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Wilson’s Order Book
- NP: July 6, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, July 4-5
- NP: July 7, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: Death of Col. Bates, 8th NYHA
- NP: July 7, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: From the Army, 2nd Corps
- NP: July 9, 1864 Macon Daily Telegraph: For the Daily Telegraph (June 27, 1864)
- NP: July 11, 1864 New York Daily News: From General Foster’s Command
- NP: July 12, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: From the 8th N. Y. Artillery
- NP: July 12, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: Head Quarters 8th N.Y. Vol.
- NP: July 14, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: 22nd New York Cavalry in Wilson-Kautz Raid
- NP: July 14, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: Localities Around Richmond
- NP: July 14, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: Lt. Col. Pond Wounded, 2nd US Colored Cavalry
- NP: July 14, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: On the James River (1B,4D,5C)
- NP: July 14, 1864 Pittston (PA) Gazette: Interesting Letter 2nd Pa Provisional Heavy Artillery
- NP: July 16, 1864 Irish American Weekly: Letter from the 5th New Hampshire Vols.
- NP: July 16, 1864 Richmond Daily Dispatch: Below Richmond
- NP: July 18, 1864 Detroit Free Press: From the Michigan Cavalry Brigade
- NP: July 18, 1864 Richmond Daily Dispatch: The Second Howitzers
- NP: July 19, 1864 Sandusky (NY) Register: Interesting Letter from the 122nd New York
- NP: July 20, 1864 Augusta (GA) Daily Constitutionalist: Letter from the 48th Georgia
- NP: July 21, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: Strength of the 22nd NY Cavalry
- NP: July 21, 1864 New Hampshire Sentinel: Letters from Petersburg
- NP: July 25, 1864 Eastern Argus: Letter from the Army
- NP: July 27, 1864 Philadelphia Press: HQ and Field Hospital, 9th Corps
- NP: July 28, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: Brig. Gen. John H. Martindale
- NP: July 28, 1864 Daily Eastern Argus: Letter from the Army (Skirmishing, Digging, Politics)
- NP: July 28, 1864 Windham County Transcript: 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery in the Trenches
- NP: July 29, 1864 Vermont Phoenix: Our Army Correspondence, 17th Vermont
- NP: July 30, 1864 Augusta (GA) Daily Constitutionalist: Letter from Cobb’s Legion of Cavalry
- NP: July 30, 1864 New York Daily Tribune: Bermuda Hundred
- NP: July 30, 1864 New York Herald: Mr. A. Davidson’s Dispatches
- NP: July 30, 1864 New York Herald: Mr. Finley Anderson’s Dispatch
- NP: July 30, 1864 New York Herald: Mr. S. Cadwallader’s Dispatch
- NP: July 30, 1864 New York Tribune: Butler’s Headquarters
- NP: July 30, 1864 New York World: Special Dispatch to the World
- NP: July 30, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: A Battle on the James
- NP: July 31, 1864 Augusta (GA) Daily Constitutionalist: Letter from Wofford’s Brigade
- NP: July 31, 1864 New York Times: In Bivouac
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