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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/3996817/posts

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Captain Strong’s Adventure – 1-2
The Plan of the Campaign – 1, 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
John Bull since the Southern Rebellion – 5
The Rebel General A.S. Johnston – 6
The “Winona” – 6, 8
Terrible Accident and Loss of Life at the Continental Theatre, Philadelphia – 7, 25
The “Jamestown” at Fernandina – 9, 11
Rebel Intrenchments on the Martinsburg Turnpike, near Winchester, Virginia – 10
The Western Wharves at Washington, where Army Supplies are Received – 11
A United States Army Supply Train Passing through Hagerstown, Maryland – 12
View on the James River Canal, near Balcony Falls-Rebel Troops Going from Lynchburg to Buchanan, on their Way to Western Virginia – 13
Crossing the Manassas Gap Railroad, and the Alexandria and Warrington Turnpike, at White Plains-Arrival of Reinforcements for Beauregard, at the Camp of the Tiger Zouaves of Louisiana – 14
Three Stories – 15
A Narrow Escape – 15-16
Fort Snelling, Minnesota, Rendezvous of the Minnesota Volunteers – 17
Fort Porter, New York, where the Second Buffalo Regiment is Quartered – 18, 25
The Fisheries of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, North Carolina – 19-22
A Strange Story, by sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. XXII-XXIII – 23-24
Beat! Beat! Drums!, by Walt Whitman – 24-25
The Sinews of War – 25
The Union versus Secession – 26

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

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James Russell Lowell to Sibyl Norton, September 28, 1861 (Lowell distrusts newspaper reports and dined with Prince Napoleon.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/james-russell-lowell-to-sibyl-norton.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 28, 1861 (“I sent the paper containing my article to J. R. Davis, Esq., nephew of the President, avowing its authorship, and requesting him to ask the President’s attention to the subject.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_25.html

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

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The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears

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Continued September 27 (reply #29).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3996817/posts#29

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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Commandant Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, September 29, 1861 (DuPont requests a command for Percival Drayton. He will get the Pocahontas.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/commandant-samuel-f-dupont-to-gustavus_10.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, September 29, 1861 (“We have three generals here. Rosecrans, Cox, and Schenck. We suppose, but don’t know, that there are three generals in the enemy’s camp, viz: Lee, Wise, and Floyd.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_9.html

Major Wilder Dwight: Friday, Sunday Evening, September 29, 1861 (“If so, and the report [of a great battle involving the 2nd Mass] ran home by telegraph, you have had a very needless alarm. Never was repose so undisturbed as ours.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/major-wilder-dwight-friday-sunday.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: September 29, 1861 (Words of wisdom from Henry Ward Beecher: “You trust in God and worry all the time. It’s just as if I should pay my passage through to Albany in the cars and then walk up all the way.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell_24.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 29, 1861 (“To-day Mr. Benjamin issued several passports himself, and sent several others to me with peremptory orders for granting them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_15.html

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Continued from September 3 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3990589/posts#25

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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

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Diary of Edward Bates, September 30, 1861 (Attorney General Bates wants to see military action.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/diary-of-edward-bates-september-30-1861.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, September 30, 1861 (“We cannot tell what they are about, but I believe we are ready for them, let them come in what direction they choose.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_30.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: September 30, 1861 (“Official notice informs us this evening that Captain Plummer, U. S. A., has been appointed Colonel of the Eleventh Missouri”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 30, 1861 (Disloyal prisoners are being let out of prison and Jones doesn’t like it.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_11.html

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Continued from September 1 (reply #12).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3990589/posts#12

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

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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Abraham Lincoln’s Memorandum for a Plan of Campaign

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/abraham-lincolns-memorandum-for-plan-of.html

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: October 1, 1861 (The situation on Sewell Mountain.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: October 1, 1861 (”This morning Colonel [John Pope] Cook leaves for Springfield on a leave of absence.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_36.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 1, 1861 (More on the departure of enemy aliens leaving the Confederacy.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-1.html

Brigadier General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, October 1, 1861 (Jackson present when Pres. Davis met with his generals at Fairfax Courthouse.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/brigadier-general-thomas-j-jackson-to_29.html

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With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

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The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears

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

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Major Wilder Dwight: October 2, 1861 (“In my judgment, the next severe blow our cause gets will be in Kentucky, whither the theatre of war is moving.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/major-wilder-dwight-october-2-1861.html

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, October 2, 1861 (“In a fight so desperate as that which is now being waged in Missouri we have need of all our arms, — and Lincoln has compelled us to throw aside the most effective of them all”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 2, 1861 (Still excited over enemy aliens.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-2.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: October 2, 1861 (“Our army in Fairfax has fallen back from “Munson’s Hill” to the Court-House; thus leaving our dear homes more deeply buried in the shade of Yankeeism than ever.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-october-2-1861.html