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 September 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 September 1864.
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- NP: September 1, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: Casualties in Co. A, 140th (NY) Regiment, August 18
- NP: September 1, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: The Health of the Army
- NP: September 1, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: The War
- NP: September 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Richmond Defence Artillery Corps Parade
- NP: September 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, August 31
- NP: September 2, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 21st PA Cav at Globe Tavern, August 18-21, 1864
- NP: September 2, 1864 The Bedford Inquirer: 76th PA at Fussell’s Mill, August 16, 1864
- NP: September 2, 1864 Boston Recorder: The Repulse at Petersburg, July 30, 1864
- NP: September 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: 24th Virginia Cavalry at the Battle of Fussell’s Mill, August 14
- NP: September 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: A. P. Hill’s Report on 2nd Ream’s Station
- NP: September 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Battle of Fussell’s Mill
- NP: September 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Butler’s (Dutch Gap) Canal
- NP: September 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 1
- NP: September 3, 1864 Cape Ann Light and Gloucester Telegraph: 23rd MA at the Siege of Petersburg, Late August 1864
- NP: September 3, 1864 Cape Ann Light and Gloucester Telegraph: 32nd MA at the Battle of Globe Tavern, August 18-21, 1864
- NP: September 3, 1864 Irish-American (NY): Sixty-Ninth Regt., N.Y.S.N.G.
- NP: September 3, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Battle of Reams Station, August 25
- NP: September 3, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 2
- NP: September 5, 1864 Richmond Examiner: McIntosh’s Battalion at Ream’s Station, August 25
- NP: September 5, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Situation at Petersburg, Sept. 1-2, 4
- NP: September 5, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 3-4
- NP: September 7, 1864 Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: Colonel Leasure and the Roundheads
- NP: September 7, 1864 Richmond Examiner: From Petersburg, September 4
- NP: September 7, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Rosser’s Cavalry Brigade at Ream’s Station, August 25
- NP: September 7, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 6
- NP: September 8, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: From the Second Corps, August 28
- NP: September 8, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: Lt. Col. N. P. Pond, 2nd US Colored Cavalry
- NP: September 8, 1864 Brockport (NY) Republic: The Position on the North Side of the James River
- NP: September 8, 1864 Raleigh Confederate: Scales’ Brigade
- NP: September 9, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 8
- NP: September (?) 9, 1864 Windham County Transcript: Twenty-ninth (CT) Regiment
- NP: September 10, 1864 Anglo-African: From the 29th Connecticut Regiment
- NP: September 10, 1864 Richmond Examiner: North Carolina Troops at Ream’s Station, August 25
- NP: September 10, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 9
- NP: September 12, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 9-11
- NP: September 13, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 12
- NP: September 15, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 14
- NP: September 17, 1864 Binghamton Republican: Col. B.F. Tracy and Col. I.S. Catlin
- NP: September 17, 1864 Boston Evening Transcript: From the Ninth Army Corps
- NP: September 17, 1864 Boston Evening Transcript: Rebel Admission of Weakness
- NP: September 17, 1864 Irish-American (NY): Corcoran Legion at Second Reams Station
- NP: September 20, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Hampton’s Dash Upon the Enemy, Sept. 14-17
- NP: September 23, 1864 Boston Recorder: Work of the Christian Commission
- NP: September 23, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, September 21-22
- NP: September 28, 1864 Trenton State Gazette: A Soldier’s Letter, 68th PA