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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Biographical Sketch of Hon. D.E. Sickles – 2-4
Madame La Marquise – 4
Editorials – 4-6
Correspondence – 6
The Lounger – 6-7
The Wreck of the “Dromahair” – 8-10
Destruction of St. Peter’s College By a Landslide – 10-11
Arrival of the Neapolitan Exiles in Ireland – 10-12
The Trial of Hon. Daniel E. Sickles – 13-16
Bargain-Hunting – 17-18
What I Went Through to Get Her – 18-20
Trumps, by George William Curtis, Ch. 1 – 21-23
Our Special Paris Correspondent – 23-24
The Weekly Farmer – 24-25
Domestic Economy – 26

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Continued from September 25, 1858 (reply #5) .

Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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The Sickles trial was the OJ Trial of the 19th century Antebellum US.

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Continued from April 8 (reply #14.)

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

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Harriett Newby to Dangerfield Newby, April 11, 1859

BRENTVILLE, April 11th, 1859.

DEAR HUSBAND:

I mus now write you apology for not writing you before this, but I know you will excuse me when I tell you Mrs. Gennings has been very sick. She has a baby — a little girl; ben a grate sufferer; her breast raised, and she has had it lanced, and I have had to stay with her day and night; so you know I had no time to write, but she is now better, and one of her own servent is now sick. I am well; that is of the grates importance to you. I have no news to write you, only the children are all well. I want to see you very much, but are looking forward to the promest time of your coming. Oh, Dear Dangerfield, com this fall without fail, monny or no monney. I want to see you so much. That is one bright hope I have before me. Nothing more at present, but remain

Your affectionate wife,
HARRIETT NEWBY.

P. S. Write soon, if you please.

SOURCE: H. W. Flournoy, Editor, Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts from January 1 1836 to April 15, 1869, Volume 11, p. 310

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Dangerfield Newby Wikipedia page

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Edwin Morton to Franklin B. Sanborn, Wednesday Evening, April 13, 1859

Wednesday Evening, April 13, 1859.

You must hear of Brown's meeting this afternoon, — few in numbers, but the most interesting I perhaps ever saw. Mr. Smith spoke well; G. W. Putnam read a spirited poem; and Brown was exceedingly interesting, and once or twice so eloquent that Mr. Smith and some others wept. Some one asked him if he had not better apply himself in another direction, and reminded him of his imminent peril, and that his life could not be spared. His replies were swift and most impressively tremendous. A paper was handed about, with the name of Mr. Smith for four hundred dollars, to which others added. Mr. Smith, in the most eloquent speech I ever heard from him, said: “If I were asked to point out — I will say it in his presence — to point out the man in all this world I think most truly a Christian, I would point to John Brown.” I was once doubtful in my own mind as to Captain Brown's course. I now approve it heartily, having given my mind to it more of late.1

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1 When I first met Brown at Peterboro', in 1858, Morton played some fine music to us in the parlor, — among other things Schubert's “Serenade,” then a favorite piece, — and the old Puritan, who loved music and sang a good part himself, sat weeping at the air.

“Northward he turneth through a little door,
And scarce three steps ere music's golden tongue
Flattered to tears this aged man and poor.
But, no; already had his death-bell rung;
The Joys of all his life were said and sung."

SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 467

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Continued from December 29, 1858 (reply #20).

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life