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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- August 1, 1864 New York Tribune: The Operations of Wednesday
- August 12, 1864 Kennebec Journal: The Colored Troops of the Ninth Corps
- August 13, 1864 Detroit Free Press: From the Twentieth Infantry
- August 16, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: "July 26, 1864 March"
- August 16, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: “More on The First Deep Bottom Operation”
- August 16, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: “The First Deep Bottom Operation”
- August 2, 1864 Batavia (NY) Republican Advocate: Our Army Before Petersburg
- August 23, 1864 Detroit Free Press: From the Seventh Infantry
- August 27, 1864 Quincy Patriot: 24th Massachusetts Itinerary
- August 27, 1864 Quincy Patriot: Camp of 56th [Mass] Reg.
- August 4, 1864 Baltimore Clipper: Sheridan's Cavalry
- August 8, 1864 South Danvers [Mass] Wizard: Naval Correspondence
- August 9, 1864 Detroit Free Press: From the Seventh Infantry
- January 8, 1887 Portland Evening Express: J.W. Spaulding on the Second Battle of Reams' Station