The Virginia Newspaper Project gives free access to a large variety of Civil War era newspapers- link.
While the Virginia Chronicle (link) is a free, searchable digital archive of Virginia newspapers, providing access to 698,600 issues comprising 6,956,815 pages. For a comprehensive overview of the available resources for newspaper research, please refer to the Library of Virginia’s:
To search specific newspaper titles and holdings held by the Library of Virginia, as well as holdings at select repositories, visit:
For a comprehensive list of additional free, digital newspaper resources for collections outside the commonwealth, visit:
Free Historic U.S. Newspapers by State
The Virginia Newspaper Project
