The National Tribune was a monthly and then weekly newspaper published from 1877-1917. The National Tribune was essentially the newspaper of the Grand Army of the Republic, the largest and most famous of the postwar Union veteran organizations. Its pages are filled with first person accounts of famous Civil War battles, including those fought during the Siege of Petersburg. Like similar Confederate post-war publications, the length of time between the war and when these accounts were written as well as the potential desire of writers to make themselves look better calls into question the accuracy of many accounts.
Various articles from the National Tribune which pertain the Siege of Petersburg will begin to appear here as I find time to transcribe and edit them.
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- NT: May 1, 1878 National Tribune: The Richmond Battle-Fields
- NT: October 1, 1879 National Tribune: The Last Day of the Lost Cause
- NT: November 1, 1879 National Tribune: A Soldier’s Beautiful Letter
- NT: July 1, 1880 National Tribune: General Hancock
- NT: July 1, 1880 National Tribune: The Surrender of Richmond
- NT: September 10, 1881 National Tribune: Petersburg Revisited
- NT: September 17, 1881 National Tribune: Appomattox Court House
- NT: September 17, 1881 National Tribune: General William M. Gregg
- NT: November 26, 1881 National Tribune: Capture of Fort Harrison – How the Rebels Failed to Retake It
- NT: February 18, 1882 National Tribune: Grant’s Anecdote of Lincoln
- NT: February 25, 1882 National Tribune: Battle of the Crater: Petersburg, July 30, 1864
- NT: March 18, 1882 National Tribune: A Confederate Soldier’s Opinion
- NT: April 15, 1882 National Tribune: An Incident at Hatcher’s Run
- NT: April 29, 1882 National Tribune: An Incident of General Keifer’s War Record
- NT: May 13, 1882 National Tribune: A Singular Coincidence
- NT: July 22, 1882 National Tribune: Speaker Keifer In The War
- NT: August 5, 1882 National Tribune: The Engagement at Sailors Creek
- NT: August 26, 1882 National Tribune: Cool in the Midst of Danger
- NT: August 26, 1882 National Tribune: Warren and Five Forks
- NT: October 18, 1883 National Tribune: Who Will Write Up the Deep Bottom Fights
- NT: October 28, 1886 National Tribune: The Capture of Fort Harrison, Sept. 29
- NT: March 22, 1888 National Tribune: Fort Harrison, How It Was Taken, Sept. 29
- NT: May 24, 1888 National Tribune: Fort Harrison, Gen. Clay Corrects a Pennsylvania Comrade
- NT: October 18, 1888 National Tribune: C. W. Clayberger, 188th PA, on Fort Harrison
- NT: April 25, 1889 National Tribune: Piedmont and Fort Gregg
- NT: May 2, 1889 National Tribune: Planting the Flag at Fort Harrison, Sept. 29
- NT: May 1, 1890 National Tribune: Front of Petersburg, Fort Gregg, April 2, 1865
- NT: July 31, 1890 National Tribune: Army of the James at Fort Harrison, Sept. 29
- NT: July 9, 1891 National Tribune: The 3d Vt. Battery at Fort Gregg by C.A. Story
- NT: May 3, 1894 National Tribune: Captured at Stony Creek Station, Dec. 1, 1864
- NT: July 19, 1894 National Tribune: Pennsylvania Cavalry Take Two Forts at Stony Creek Station, Dec. 1, 1864
- NT: November 10, 1898 National Tribune: The Pennsylvania Reserves from Cold Harbor to Appomattox
- NT: March 6, 1902 National Tribune: Capture of Fort Gregg by G.K. Campbell
- NT: May 15, 1902 National Tribune: Defending Fort Gregg by George W. Kennedy
- NT: June 25, 1903 National Tribune: Battle of the Crater
- NT: October 17, 1907 National Tribune: The Massacre in the Crater
- NT: October 20, 1910 National Tribune: Ream’s Station Again