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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

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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread

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

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Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, October 3, 1861 (“We are evidently at the end of our campaign in this direction for this season.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_11.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, October 3, 1861 (“Who will get into a better place, is the question. We all want to go to Washington or to Kentucky or Missouri.”)

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

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: October 3, 1861 (“[Col. Andrew Jackson Babcock] receives orders to proceed the following day to Fort Holt, Kentucky, with his regiment, and relieve the Seventeenth Illinois.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_78.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw, October 3, 1861 (“We have no battle yet, although September has passed, the month in which they were to take place.”)

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

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 3, 1861 (“The President not having taken any steps in the matter, I have no alternative but to execute the order of the Secretary.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-3.html

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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 4, 1861 (Officer of the Day Dwight writes to fill the time before he makes midnight rounds.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/major-wilder-dwight-october-4-1861.html

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: October 4, 1861 (Happy birthday, Maj. Hayes.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_15.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: October 4, 1861 (“At 10 A, M., we strike our tents; 12 M., we march in a thunder storm to the river, and embark on the steamer Aleck Scott.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_52.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 4, 1861 (Jones denies applications for enemy aliens to leave the Confederacy w/o having their names published.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-4.html