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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

https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:homerjsimpson/index?tab=articles

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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3960175/posts

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Not Dead – 1
To Our Southern Readers – 1, 3
Willard’s Hotel, Washington, Saved by the New York Fire Zouaves – 2
Are the Montgomery Privateers Pirates? – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Jeff Davis Snuffing Out the Light – 4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Second Reinforcement of Fort Pickens – 5, 8, 10, 12
Camp Cameron, Georgetown, D.C., the Encampment of the Seventh Regiment New York State Militia – 6
Service by Rev. Dr. Weston, Chaplain of the Seventh Regiment, at Camp Cameron, on Sunday, May 5, 1861 – 6
Evening Parade at Fort Pickens-Colonel Brown Announcing to His Men Major Anderson’s Gallant Defense at Fort Sumter – 7
Galleries Under the Senate Chamber Converted into Granaries – 8
Bread Ovens in the Basement of the Capitol, Washington – 8
Cooking and Eating Arrangements in the Court-Yard of the Treasury Building, Washington, D.C. – 9
Departure of Volunteers from Dubuque, Iowa, April 22, 1861 – 10, 16
The Eighth Massachusetts Regiment in the Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington – 11
The Seventy-Ninth Regiment (Highlanders) New York State Militia – 13
Scott, York, Pennsylvania, Occupied by Pennsylvania and Ohio Volunteers – 14, 15
Winans Steam Gun – 15
Our Army at Washington – 15-16
The Washington Junction Viaduct, Commanded by the Winans Gun and Federal Artillery – 16
The Relay House, Washington Junction, Now Occupied by Federal Volunteers – 16
Another War Map – 16-17
Camp of United States Volunteers at the Relay House – 18
Late Head-Quarters of Colonel Ellsworth, of the N.Y. Fire Zouaves, at the Capitol at Washington – 19
The New York Fire Zouaves Quartered in the House of Representatives at Washington – 20
The Coming of the Spring – 21
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch XL-XLI – 21-22
Guests at the Great Inn – 23
Northern Lights – 24
Northern Soldiers: What they say of us & What we are – 25

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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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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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Company Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show: A Memoir of the Civil War, by Sam R. Watkins

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Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Capt. Grenville M. Dodge, May 25, 1861 (Gov. Kirkwood desires arms for Iowa.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-capt.html

Charles Russell Lowell to Anna C. Jackson Lowell, May 25, 1861 (Lowell sneaked into VA and dined at Arlington.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/charles-russell-lowell-to-anna-c_19.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 25, 1861 (The invasion of Virginia and the deaths of Ellsworth and Jackson with a southern spin. Amazing how fast the details of the affair got to New Orleans. The Telegraph is more powerful than I thought.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/diary-of-william-howard-russell-may-25.html

Colonel Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, May 25, 1861 (Gen. Lee to Mrs. Lee, on losing her home to the Union army.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/colonel-robert-e-lee-to-mary-custis-lee.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 25, 1861 (“. . . the wrath of the Southern chivalry will some day burst forth on the ensanguined plain, and then let the presumptuous foemen of the North beware of the fiery ordeal they have invoked.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-25.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: May 25, 1861 (McGuire and company are at Fairfax, VA, refugees now. She recounts yesterday’s events at Arlington and Alexandria, including the deaths of Ellsworth and Jackson, the innkeeper who shot Ellsworth.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-may-25-1861.html

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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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Diary of William Howard Russell: May 26, 1861 (Implications of moving the Confederate capital to Richmond and Russell’s prediction sent to the Time of London on the nature of the coming war. “there can be no doubt large losses will be incurred whenever these masses of men are fairly opposed to each other in the open field.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/diary-of-william-howard-russell-may-26.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 26, 1861 – First Entry (Descriptions of the Episcopal minister in Montgomery and several government figures.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-26.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 26, 1861 – Second Entry (President Davis is sick today. Speculation on the size of the Confederate army and how to organize it.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-26_30.html

Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, May 26, 1861 (Hayes calculating the chances of his regiment being accepted into the Union army.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis-birchard.html

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

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Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to the Senate of the Sate of Iowa, May 27, 1861 (The Governor has contracted for the purchase of coats, pants, hats, shirts, drawers, socks and shoes for the Iowa regiments.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-senate-of.html

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, May 27, 1861 (Treating fugitive slaves as contraband of war is getting complicated.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/major-general-benjamin-f-butler-to.html

Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, May 27, 1861 (“I heard a good war sermon today on the subject, ‘The Horrors of Peace’!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis-birchard_7.html

Charles Eliot Norton to Arthur H. Clough, May 27, 1861 (“As events have turned out nothing could have been more fortunate than the bombardment of the fort, and the lowering of the national flag before the force of a rebellious State.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/charles-eliot-norton-to-arthur-h-clough_28.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 27, 1861 (“If words mean anything, all the Southern people are determined to resist Mr. Lincoln’s invasion as long as they have a man or a dollar.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/diary-of-william-howard-russell-may-27.html

Colonel Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, May 27, 1861 (“I suppose you have heard that General Joseph E. Johnston, of the Confederate army, has been placed in command here.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 27, 1861 (“We leave Montgomery day after to-morrow. The President goes to-day — but quietly — no one, not connected with the Government, to have information of the fact until his arrival in Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-27.html

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

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Diary of William Howard Russell: May 28, 1861 (A New Orleans yachtsman wants a British flag to fly so he can inspect the U.S.N. blockaders. Russell also tells a story of NOLA justice purchased.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/diary-of-william-howard-russell-may-28.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 28, 1861 (Jones learns his wife, children, cat, and parrot all made it safely to Richmond.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-28.html

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Continued from May 15 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3958133/posts#25

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

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

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Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, May 29, 1861 (Butler reports his plans for Newport News.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/headquarters-departmentof-virginia-may.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: May 29, 1861 (Mr. Russell describes the problem of “the Hebrews,” “one of the evils which afflicts the Louisianians.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/diary-of-william-howard-russell-may-29.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: May 29, 1861 (Judith can’t go home and learns that Yankee soldiers have been searching her home for weapons.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-may-29-1861.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: May 29, 1861 – Night (More on the woes of secessionist Alexandrians.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-may-29-1861_7.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 29 and 30, 1861 (On the way to Richmond. Former U.S. Secretary of War Floyd describes his treachery while in that office.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-29.html

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes