Harper’s Weekly – April 4, 1863

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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/4141381/posts

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Our Army in the Southwest – 1-2, 5-6
Forward-March! – 2
Now for a Victory! – 2
The British Pirates – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Army of the Cumberland – 6-7
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Prologue, Ch. I – 7-10
A Wedding in Camp – 11, 15
A Night Scout in the Southwest-Surprise of an Outpost, and Survey of the Rebel Guns – 12
Map of the Course of the Mississippi from Bayou Sara to Baton Rouge – 13
“A Dark Night’s Work,” by Elizabeth Gaskell, Ch. XVI – 14-15
The Last Shot – 15
In Dixie – 15-16
Brigadier-General Robert B. Mitchell – 17
General Leonard F. Ross – 17
Sale of Confiscated Blood-Horses at New Orleans – 17-18
In Hospital – 18-19

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Continued from April 1 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4141381/posts#13

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from April 3 (reply #18).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4141381/posts#18

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

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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, April 4, 1863 (Welles vs. Seward on letters of marque.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-april-4.html

For Hire—A Family of Negroes, published April 4, 1863 (Classified ad from Richmond Enquirer.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/for-hirea-family-of-negroes-published.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Saturday, April 4, 1863 (Fremantle entertained in Matamoros.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_10.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 4, 1863 (“It is the belief of some that the riot was a premeditated affair, stimulated from the North, and executed through the instrumentality of emissaries.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-4.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 4, 1863 (“It is very cold. The Yankees are firing all the time. Then the 43d Regiment came and relieved us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-4-1863.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: April 4, 1863 (“The riot, it is ascertained, was not caused by want; it was no doubt set on foot by Union influences.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_10.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #3
“Team of Rivals,” #4
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #5
John Hay, #6
George Templeton Strong, #7
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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Seasick eloquence!

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Continued from April 4 (reply #4).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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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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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Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, April 5, 1863 (“Five companies of the Twenty-third had a hard race after Jenkins. They got his stragglers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_21.html

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse: April 5, 1863 (“I wouldn’t have believed, two months ago, that popular feeling would be so unanimously for war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/captain-charles-fessenden-morse-april-5.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: April 5, 1863 (Chatting up some local ladies on picket duty.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-april-5.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Sunday, April 5, 1863 (Still in Matamoros, hosted by the British Vice-Consul.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_11.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 5, 1863 (“The Northern invaders who anticipate a pleasant sojourn during the winter and spring in this climate, have been very disagreeably disappointed in these expectations.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-5.html

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, April 5, 1863 (“There is now some scurvy in the army, which is caused by a lack of a vegetable diet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/dr-spenser-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 5, 1863 (“Everything is quiet on our line to-day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-5-1863.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #11
John Nicolay, #12
John Hay, #13
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Continued from April 5 (reply #11).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from March 18 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4138019/posts#25

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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 Gideon Welles: Monday, April 6, 1863 (“The report of the “Committee on the Conduct of the War” is to-day published. This method of supervising military operations by legislative committee is of more than questionable utility.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-april-6.html

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse: April 6, 1863 (“I wish you could have seen the great military display there was near here yesterday. You probably have seen by the papers that President Abe is paying a visit to the army”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/captain-charles-fessenden-morse-april-6.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: April 6, 1863 (“Hardly a bridge, culbert or cattle guard but has been burned from three to ten times and rebuilt as often.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/captain-charles-wright-wills-april-6.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Monday, April 6, 1863 (“There was a great firing of guns and squibs in the afternoon, in consequence of the news of a total defeat of the French at Puebla, with a loss of 8000 prisoners and 70 pieces of cannon.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_13.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 6, 1863 (“It seems that it was a mistake about the enemy’s monitors approaching the forts in Charleston harbor”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-6.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 6, 1863 (“We put up one piece of cannon right on the river bank, but had to work all night in the swamp to do so.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-6-1863.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: April 6, 1863 (“[Brother Willy] has just been on a little visit to General Jackson’s army; preached there; says Jackson is longing to be out of the field, and at home once more.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-april_14.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #16
“Lee,” #17
John Hay, #18
Links to 7 items at civil War Notebook, #19