Harper’s Weekly – March 26, 1864

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1861-1865: Seminar and Discussion Forum
The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: May 2025.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:homerjsimpson/index?tab=articles

To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4225326/posts

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Colonel Ulric Dahlgren – 1-2, 5
General Grant as Lieutenant-General – 1, 6
General Custer’s Raid – 1-3, 10
A Danger – 2
Mr. Chase – 2-3
General Frémont – 3
A Sophism – 3
Abominable Good-Nature – 3
The New Thing – 3
From Chattanooga – 3
Harper for April – 3
The New Pictures – 3
Humors of the Day – 3-4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Foreign News – 7
Army and Navy Items – 7
Dr. Peregrine’s Page – 7-8, 10
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. VII-VIII – 10-12
What Might have Been – 12
“My Little Sister” – 12-13
Mobile and Its Defenses – 14-15
Honorable Michael Hahn, Governor of Louisiana – 15
By the River – 15
Paris Fashions for March – 15-16

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Continued from March 18 (reply #32).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4223681/posts#32

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, March 26, 1864 (“In this whole matter of procuring seamen for the Navy there has been a sorry display of the prejudices of some of the military authorities. Halleck appears to dislike the Navy more than he loves his country.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/11/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-march.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, March 26, 1864 (“I trust, however, that this monotony will soon be broken by the movement of the unbroken columns of this splendidly equipped and well fed army of veterans against the famed Army of Northern Virginia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_23.html

Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, March 26, 1864 (“While [Grant] must despise the fickle fools who run after him, he, like most others, may be spoiled by this excess of flattery.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/05/senator-john-sherman-to-major-general.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, March 26, 1864 (“I believe Grant is honest and fair, and I have no doubt he will give me full credit for anything I may do, and if I don’t deserve any, I don’t desire it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/major-general-george-g-meade-to_20.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, March 26, 1864 (“Lucy schools the larger boy with a young soldier who is a good deal older than Birch, but not so far advanced”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia_27.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: March 26, 1864 (The 1st Louisiana Infantry (U.S.) embarks for Alexandria.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_79.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: March 26, 1864 (“Appearances would seem to indicate that I am thirty or thereabouts, but as I was born on the 20th day of March, 1843, I must now be just twenty-one years of age”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: March 26, 1864 (“Returning, we bring through a prisoner captured by Company F, who reports Forrest in Memphis and Longstreet in Knoxville.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-march_7.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 26, 1864 (“It is to be hoped that as money gets scarcer, food and raiment will get cheaper.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-26.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 26, 1864 (“We were visited to-day by our Governor, Zeb Vance, who made us a speech of two and a half hour’s duration. With him on the platform was General Lee, General Ewell and several others.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-26.html

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Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #3
John Hay, #4
George Templeton Strong, #5
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Last person to be regular promotion to Lieutenant General was Washington. Although Winfield Scott was given an honorary Lt Generslship.

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, March 27, 1864 (“I have seen it alluded to though incorrectly in some of the papers, that “U. S.” are not the real initials of General Grant’s name. In order to put you in possession of the facts, I will tell you his original Christian name and how it came to be changed to what it is now. . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_24.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, March 27, 1864 (“Cheerfully will I give him all credit if he can bring the war to a close.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/major-general-george-g-meade-to_21.html

Major-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, March 27, 1864 (“I doubt whether he will be able to effect much more than other Generals we have had in command here. The truth is, we are on the wrong road to take Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/major-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_5.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: March 27, 1864 (“On the way up two men hailed us from the shore in the woods. We took them in and found they were deserters from the gun boats at Fort De Russey.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_9.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: March 27, 1864 (“New prisoners die the quickest and are buried in the near vicinity, we are told in trenches without coffins.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_2.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: March 27, 1864 (“Nothing new to-day, save some fine horses brought in this evening by the foraging parties. The Seventh is feasting high to-night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-march.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 27, 1864 (“Collards coming up. Potatoes all rotted in the ground during the recent cold weather. I shall rely on other vegetables, which I am now beginning to sow freely.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-27.html

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Continued from Continued from March 14 (reply #16).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4223681/posts#16

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, March 28, 1864 (The President intercedes in the matter of transferring soldiers from the army to the navy.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/11/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-march_16.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, March 28, 1864 (“General Grant returned this afternoon from Washington much disgusted with the news from General Banks, who was to have been at Alexandria on the Red River by the 17th instant, but instead of being there was on the 18th instant still at New Orleans”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_25.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: March 28, 1864 (“Arrived at Alexandria at four p. m. and encamped on the same ground we did the year before”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_10.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: March 28, 1864 (“Wirtz comes inside and has began to be very insolent. Is constantly watching for tunnels. He is a brute. We call him the ‘Flying Dutchman’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_3.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, March 28, 1864 (“The details are now very heavy patroling, foraging, scouting, &c.—but we live sumptuously upon what little fat of the land yet remains.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_68.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 28, 1864 (“It is said that Gen. Longstreet is marching with expedition down the Valley of the Shenandoah, to flank Meade or Grant. I doubt it. But the campaign will commence as soon as the weather will permit.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-28.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 28, 1864 (“We were reviewed to-day by our Governor. When I say reviewed, I mean all the North Carolina troops in our corps. After the review we went to Ramseur’s Brigade, where he spoke again.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-28.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lee,” reply #12
George Templeton Strong, #13
John Jackman, #14
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #15

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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

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Find a Grave entry for Mrs. William C. Schermerhorn=> https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57547337/ann_elliott_huger-schermerhorn

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis