Harper’s Weekly – April 27, 1861

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: 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: Sometime in the future.
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/3952202/posts

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The Bombardment of Fort Sumter – 1, 6-7, 11
Swearing in Volunteers at Washington – 1-3
Steer N.W.: The First Officer’s Story – 3
By the President of the United States: A Proclamation – 3
The War – 3-4
Our Illustrations of the War – 4
The Lounger – 4-5
The Seventh – 5
Humors of the Day – 5
The Great House on the Shore – 8-9
Domestic Intelligence – 9-10
Foreign News – 10
Billows Past – 12-13
In Peril Underground – 13-14
Love and ‘Lection – 14-15
President Lincoln – 15-17
General P.G.T. Beauregard – 17
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch XXXV-XXXVI – 18-20
The Smiles and Tears of April – 20
Intolerable! – 21
Dining Under Difficulties – 22

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Continued from April 25 (reply #58).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3952202/posts?q=1&;page=51#58

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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Continued from April 25 (reply #60).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3952202/posts?q=1&;page=51#60

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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

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

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The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears

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Simon Cameron to J. Edgar Thomson, April 27, 1861 (War Secretary Cameron wants to occupy Baltimore. Lincoln wants to raise 25 regiments of regulars.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/simon-cameron-to-j-edgar-thomson-april.html

Brevet Lieutenant General Winfield Scott to Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, April 27, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/03/brevet-lieutenant-general-winfield.html

Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas: General Orders, No. 12, April 27, 1861 (Army Adjutant General revises Dept. boundaries, reassigns Col C.F. Smith & Maj. Heintzelman.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/03/adjutant-general-lorenzo-thomas-general.html

Sarah Hildreth Butler to Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, April 27, 1861 (Mrs. Butler on the home fires in Massachusetts. She is will to go to wherever Gen. Butler is.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/03/sarah-hildreth-butler-to-brigadier.html

Private Daniel L. Ambrose: April 27, 1861 (The 7th Illinois is quartered at the old Illinois State Penitentiary, and they aren’t happy about it.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/private-daniel-l-ambrose-april-27-1861.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: April 27, 1861 (Russell a guest on a fishing trip off Hilton Head.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-william-howard-russell-april_24.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 27, 1861 (Rumor that U.S.S. Pawnee is steaming up the James to shell Richmond. False alarm.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-27.html

Colonel Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, April 27, 1861 (Jackson promoted to Colonel and given an independent command.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/colonel-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna.html

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Today’s posts:

“The Coming Fury,” reply #3
“Lincoln,” #4
Letter from Lincoln to Winfield Scott, #5
John G. Nicolay, #6
John Hay, #7
Mary B. Chesnut, #8
George Templeton Strong, #9
George B. McClellan, #10
Links to 8 items from Civil War Notebook, #11

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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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Simon Cameron to Wilder Dwight and George L. Andrews, April 28, 1861 (Orders for raising what will become the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/simon-cameron-to-wilder-dwight-and.html

Salmon P. Chase to Alphonso Taft, April 28, 1861 (The Treasury Secretary explains his support for the administration’s position on the war.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/salmon-p-chase-to-alphonso-taft-april.html

Major-General Robert Patterson to Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler, April 28, 1861 (Butler’s CO want’s him to guard the rail line through Maryland.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/05/major-general-robert-patterson-to.html

Brigadier-General Benjamin F. Butler to Sarah Hildreth Butler, April 28, 1861 (Bringing the Butler family together in Annapolis.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/04/brigadier-general-benjamin-f-butler-to.html

Diary of Private Charles Wright Wills, April 28, 1861 (First instalment of “Army Life of an Illinois Soldier.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-private-charles-wright-wills.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: April 28, 1861 (Russell examines the lot of the slaves on the plantation he is visiting & gets an anti-Yankee lecture from a Rhett.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-william-howard-russell-april_28.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 28, 1861 (The exodus of ex-federal employees to Montgomery.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-28.html

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from April 10 (reply #30).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3948261/posts#30

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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The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears