This page of The Siege of Petersburg Online contains newspaper articles from a wide variety of American newspapers for the month of April 1865. 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 Siege of Petersburg as Americans read about in it in April 1865.
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- NP: April 3, 1865 Richmond Examiner: Last Editorial of the Examiner
- NP: April 3, 1865 Richmond Examiner: Latest News from the North, Sherman and Sheridan, March 25-28, 1865
- NP: April 3, 1865 Richmond Examiner: Operations on the Southside, March 28-31, 1865
- NP: April 3, 1865 Richmond Examiner: The War News, March 31-April 2, 1865: Richmond is Doomed
- NP: April 7, 1865 The Bedford Inquirer: The PA “High Number” Regiments at Fort Stedman, March 25, 1865
- NP: April 14, 1865 The Bedford Inquirer: 138th PA at the Breakthrough, April 2, 1865
- NP: April 14, 1865 The Roman Citizen (Rome, NY): 15th NY Eng Letter, April 6, 1865
- NP: April 14, 1865 Vermont Watchman: 3rd Vermont Battery at the Breakthrough, April 2, 1865
- NP: April 14, 1865 Vermont Watchman: The 9th Vermont in Richmond, April 1865
- NP: April 15, 1865 Columbus Sun: In the Trenches Near Petersburg
- NP: April 21, 1865 The Bedford Inquirer: 206th PA Enters the Burning City of Richmond, April 3, 1865