Harper’s Weekly – April 1, 1865

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | April 1, 1865

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April 3 (reply #29).

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued April 3 (reply #33).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from April 3 (reply #34).

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from April 3 (reply #30).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from April 3 (reply #31).

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

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Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, April 4, 1865 – 8 a.m. (“General Weitzel telegraphs from Richmond that of railroad stock he found there 28 locomotives, 44 passenger and baggage cars, and 106 freight cars.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/abraham-lincoln-to-edwin-m-stanton.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, April 4, 1865 (“The President still at City Point, or its vicinity, holding interviews with the generals and having an eye to the close, which is near.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-april-4.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, April 4, 1865 (“As to Mobile, in my judgment, it is going to be a long siege.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_10.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, April 4, 1865 (Lt. Col. Lyman writes of the road to Appomattox, and includes maps.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_16.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, April 4, 1865 (“We are enjoying full rations again, and also our new clothing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_23.html

Francis Lieber to Senator Charles Sumner, April 4, 1865 (“By a State-rebellion the States went out; by State-revolution, against the temporary de facto government, they might come back.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/francis-lieber-to-senator-charles_14.html

Diary of Corydon E. Fuller: Tuesday, April 4, 1865 (The illumination of Washington D.C.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/diary-of-corydon-e-fuller-tuesday-april.html

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, April 4, 1865 (“The merchants and brokers in Wall Street came out of their dens and sang Old Hundred and John Brown.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/george-william-curtis-to-charles-eliot_29.html

Reverend James Freeman Clarke to Anna Huidekoper Clarke, April 4, 1865 (“Abolition of slavery, fall of Charleston, fall of Richmond, — when they arrive they are like things foreordained from the foundation of the world.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/reverend-james-freeman-clarke-to-anna.html

Jefferson Davis to the People of the Confederate States of America (On the evacuation of Richmond by the government.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/jefferson-davis-to-people-of.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 4, 1865 (“The War Department was burned after I returned yesterday; and soon after the flames were arrested, mainly by the efforts of the Federal troops.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-4.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #41
“Team of Rivals,” #42
“Lincoln,” #43
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #44
“Lee,” #45
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #46
George Templeton Strong, #47
Links to 11 items at Civil War Notebook, #48

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Continued from April 2 (reply #17).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from April 4 (reply #44).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from April 4 (reply #45).

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

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Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan

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Continued from April 4 (reply #43).

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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Continued from April 4 (reply #42).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward