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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the 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/3932940/posts

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Jan the Hawker – 1
Editorials – 1, 3
Saint Valentine Day – 2
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4-5
Fort Sumter – 5-7
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch XVIII – 6, 8-9
Domestic Intelligence – 9-10
Foreign News – 10-11
Paris Fashions for February – 12
“Bring Me a Light”-A Ghost Story – 13-16
A Valentine Romance of ye Olden Time – 17-18
Gov. Hicks, of Maryland – 19
Joseph Holt, Secretary of War – 19-21
The New Orleans Customhouse, Mint, Etc. – 20-21
A Day’s Ride: A Life’s Romance, By Charles Lever, Ch XXXVII – 21-22
Snake Stories – 22-23
Serious Accident – 23

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Two excerpts from Catton today. The first one is continued from February 9 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#3

The next one is continued from February 13 (reply #23).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#23

Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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Continued from February 11 (reply #16).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#16

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

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James A. Garfield to Burke A. Hinsdale
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/james-garfield-to-burke-hinsdale_18.html

C. A. to William Still
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/c-to-william-still-february-16-1861.html

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to John Lothrop Motley
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/dr-oliver-wendell-holmes-to-john.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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Two excerpts from Catton today. The first one is continued from February 12 (reply #18).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#18

The next one is out of sequence. Not a continuation.

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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Shelby Foote, The Civil War Narrative, Volume One, Fort Sumter to Perryville

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Continued from February 11 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#13

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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

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Major Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna_15.html

Jefferson Davis’ 1st Inaugural Address (as President of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna_15.html

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Big posting day, as Jefferson Davis inaugurated as President of the Confederate States of America.

Two from Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury, reply #9
Shelby Foote, #10
David Donald's Lincoln, #11
Two whistle stop speeches by Lincoln, #12
William Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American, #13
George Templeton Strong, #14
Davis's inauguration speech and a letter from Maj. Thomas Jackson to Mrs. Jackson, #15

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Mary Chesnut’s Diary, Edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary

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Major Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna_16.html

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" . . . not so ugly as his portraits.”

I don't see a cult of personality developing just yes.

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

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Continued from February 13 (reply #X).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3932940/posts#24

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

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

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Continued from February 18 (reply #9, part 1).

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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