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 October 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 October 1864.
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- NP: October 1, 1864 Easton (MD) Gazette: Army Correspondence, Maryland Union Soldier
- NP: October 1, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: The 199th Pennsylvania
- NP: October 1, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: The War, September 28-30
- NP: October 1, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: War Bulletin, September 27-30, 1864
- NP: October 3, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: AP Reports, September 29-30
- NP: October 3, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Latest War News, September 29
- NP: October 3, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Meade’s Advance, September 29-30
- NP: October 3, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: The Left Wing, Poplar Springs Church, September 29
- NP: October 3, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: The Right Wing, Chaffin’s Farm, September 29
- NP: October 5, 1864 Broome Weekly Republican: A Voice from the Soldiers
- NP: October 5, 1864 New York Evening Post: A Rebel Letter: Shelling of Petersburg
- NP: October 10, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Battle of October 7 (Darbytown and New Market Roads)
- NP: October 10, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Details of the Fight (Darbytown and New Market Roads)
- NP: October 12, 1864 Geneva (NY) Courier: Prisoners of the 126th NY
- NP: October 12, 1864 Richmond Sentinel: Chaffin’s Bluff, Oct. 8
- NP: October 13, 1864 Richmond Sentinel: Chaffin’s Bluff, Oct. 11
- NP: October 14, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 110th PA and The Election of 1864
- NP: October 14, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 21st PA Cav at Fort Archer, September 30, 1864
- NP: October 14, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 76th PA and McClellan, September 21, 1864
- NP: October 19, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, October 15-18
- NP: October 20, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: The Late Major General David B. Birney
- NP: October 20, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, October 13 and 19
- NP: October 21, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 84th PA and The Election of 1864
- NP: October 21, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: Co. H, 208th PA at the Siege of Petersburg, Late September 1864
- NP: October 21, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: Co. K, 208th PA Arrives at the Siege of Petersburg, Late September 1864
- NP: October 21, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Army of the Potomac, October 17-19
- NP: October 22, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Army of the Potomac, October 16, 19-20
- NP: October 24, 1864 Philadelphia Inquirer: Gen. Butler’s Order on the Death of Gen. Birney
- NP: October 24, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, Oct. 22-23
- NP: October 24, 1864 Richmond Whig: Skirmish on the James Near Fort Brady, Oct. 22
- NP: October 26, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Death of General James J. Archer, Oct. 24
- NP: October 27, 1864 Harrisburg Patriot and Union: Letter from a True Soldier
- NP: October 28, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 210th PA, West of Weldon RR, Oct. 7, 1864