Harper’s Weekly – April 4, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | April 4, 1863

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Shelby Foote, The Civil War Narrative, Volume Two, Fredericksburg to Meridian

Continued from February 28 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4134481/posts#3

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Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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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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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: Tuesday, April 7, 1863 (“A loan of fifteen million dollars has recently been made to the Rebels by English capitalists, which would never have been consummated had the English officials disapproved.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-april-7.html

Major-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, April 7, 1863 (“The President and Madam Lincoln are now on a visit in camp. I was invited to dine with them to-day, but declined on account of my eyes”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/major-general-john-sedgwick-to-his.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 7, 1863 (“To-morrow we shall have exciting intelligence. If we are to believe what we hear from South Carolinians, Charleston will not be taken.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-7.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 7, 1863 (“To-day the firing was very heavy. We hit the Yankee gunboat again to-day, and made the dust fly out of their breastworks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-7-1863.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Tuesday, April 7, 1863 (“I believe that it is for true that we are to leave for New Orleans, via Clinton and Ponchatoula, this evening.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-tuesday-april-7.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” with map from Shelby Foote, reply #21
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #22
John Hay, #23
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #24

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Continued from January 14 (reply #21). A “stunning blow to the Copperheads” was the opening of an editorial in the NY Times (that I didn’t reprint) on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4122199/posts#21

Continued from April 6 (reply #16).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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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John Hay to John G. Nicolay, April 8, 1863 (“The monitors behaved splendidly. The Keokuk was sunk and the Patapsco somewhat damaged, but as a whole they encountered the furious and concentrated fire of the enemy in a style for which even our own officers had scarcely dared to hope.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/john-hay-to-john-g-nicolay-april-8-1863.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, April 8, 1863 (“An oppressive and anxious feeling in relation to movements at Charleston. It has been expected an attack would be made the first week in April. We hear nothing.”)

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

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Wednesday, April 8, 1863 (“Captain Hancock and I crossed over to Brownsville, and were conducted in a very smart ambulance to General [Hamilton] Bee’s quarters”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_15.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 8, 1863 (“one of the latter, supposed to be the Keokuk, was sunk”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-8.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 8, 1863 (“We then went to our siege-gun and saw the town [Washington] very plainly. They fired at us while we were there. The fire was returned”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-8-1863.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Wednesday, April 8, 1863 (An arduous trip for the convalescent Sarah Morgan to board a train filled with rude Arkansas soldier.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-wednesday-april-8.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals” (2 excerpts), reply #26
John Hay, #27
George Templeton Strong, #28
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #29

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The West Point regulars thought Grant’s idea to march down the west bank and cross south of Vicksburg was too risky, yet the despised political General McClernand was in favor.

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Continued from April 8 (reply #26, 2nd excerpt).

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

Fidelio => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3kfn5h-EY8

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Diary of John Hay to John G. Nicolay, April 9, 1863 (President Lincoln thought the attack on Ft. Sumter would fail, and he was right.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-john-hay-april-9-1863.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, April 9, 1863 (“A yearning, craving desire for tidings from Charleston, but the day has passed without a word.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-wednesday-april_15.html

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 9, 1863 (“The President looks careworn and exhausted. It is said he has been brought here for relaxation and amusement, and that his health is seriously threatened.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/major-general-george-g-meade-to_5.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Web Hayes, April 9, 1863 (“I am as glad as anybody that the Union ticket [in Cincinnati] was carried.”)

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

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, April 9, 1863 (“I do not look for an end of the war for a long time yet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_22.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Barnett Smith, April 9, 1863 (Col. Smith describes the ordeal of his young aide who died of typhoid fever.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_15.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Thursday, April 9, 1863 (“Colonel Buchel and I slept in Colonel Duffs tent, and at night we were serenaded. The officers and men really sang uncommonly well, and they finished with ‘God save the Queen!’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 9, 1863 (“Nothing additional has occurred at Charleston, the enemy not having renewed the attack. At Vicksburg all was quiet, and the enemy abandoning their canal.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-9.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 9, 1863 (“We were relieved this morning by the 32d Regiment, and marched to Bellevue, where the balance of our brigade is.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-9-1863.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: April 9, 1863 (“The enemy has retired from Vicksburg, their canal having proved a failure. Where they will reappear nobody knows. Another ineffectual attempt upon Charleston on the 7th and 8th.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_11.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #32
John G. Nicolay, #33
John Hay, #34
George Templeton Strong, #35
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #36

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Continued from March 25 (reply #15). Gen. Sherman wrote to brother John that Dana is “here I suppose to watch us all,” on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4139716/posts#15

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

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

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Continued from March 25 (reply #16)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4139716/posts#16

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst