Harper’s Weekly – April 27, 1861

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | April 27, 1861

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Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, May 2, 1861 (Grant serving on the governor’s staff. He missed his chance to get command of a regiment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/ulysses-s-grant-to-jesse-root-grant-may.html

Gustavus V. Fox to Virginia Woodbury Fox, May 2, 1861 (Fox will get back at that [redacted] Seward.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/08/gustavus-v-fox-to-virginia-woodbury-fox.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 2, 1861 (On the effects of slavery on the slave, the owner, and the non-slave owning whites.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-william-howard-russell-may-2.html

Major General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, May 2, 1861 (Lee on the acceptance date of his letter of resignation.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/10/major-general-robert-e-lee-to-mary_6.html

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon Professor.

Thanks for the post. Good stuff.

Wait a minute, it’s Sunday!

If you expect us to do Sundays, then we will be expecting a luau at your place after completing the course.

Fair?

5.56mm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Only if you promise to keep your mask on during the roast pig course.

[M Kehoe]

LOL.

That’s right, you live in one of those gulags.

May you excape soon.

Come on down! We got nice weather (except for a hurricane now and then), no state income tax, and a governor who has cajones.

I’ll get you a visa.

5.56mm

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Continued from April 27 (reply #4).

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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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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Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, May 3, 1861 (Calls for additional troops with 3 year enlistments.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/proclamation-of-abraham-lincoln-may-3.html

William A. Buckingham, Governor of Connecticut, to Abraham Lincoln, May 3, 1861 (Connecticut is sending troops.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/william-buckingham-governor-of.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 3, 1861 (Russell on the road again – Savannah to Macon. He unloads on rationalizations for slavery: “This affectation of Biblical sanction and ordinance as the basis of slavery was not new to me, though it is not much known at the other side of the Atlantic.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-william-howard-russell-may-3.html

Colonel Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, May 3, 1861 (“I feel better this morning than I have for some time, having got more sleep than usual last night. Your precious letters have been reaching me from time to time, and gladden your husband’s heart.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/colonel-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna_27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 3, 1861 (Mrs. Jones is stuck on the eastern shoe of Maryland. Will she be safe from the Yankees there?)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-3-1861.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lincoln,” reply #45
John Hay, #46
George Templeton Strong, #47
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #48