Posted on 06/01/2021 5:22:23 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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
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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3962221/posts
Continued from May 29 (reply #30).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3962221/posts#30
William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American
Continued May 24 (reply #38).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3960175/posts#38
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 1, 1861 (Jones sets up the War Department offices, despite objections from other departments.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-1.html
Theodore Winthrop to Elizabeth Woolsey Winthrop, June 1, 1861 (Winthrop on his status as staffer for Gen. Butler.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/theodore-wintrhop-to-elizabeth-woolsey.html
Diary of William Howard Russell: June 1, 1861 (On British subjects forced into the Confederate army and the crisis faced by America. Russell preparing for a trip up the Mississippi.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-1.html
Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 1, 1861 (McGuire witnesses a minor cavalry engagement at Chantilly, VA, just north of Manassas Junction.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-1-1861.html
Today’s posts:
“Jefferson Davis, American,” reply #3
“Lee,” #4
George Templeton Strong, #5
George B. MeClellan, #6
Links to 4 items from Civil War Notebook, #7
The cavalry engagement Judith McGuire witnessed was at Fairfax Courthouse, not Chantilly, where she wrote the entry.
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
Private Daniel L. Ambrose: June 2, 1861 (“On the second of June, private Dunsmore, of the same company [A], falls into a soldier’s grave. May the loyal people ever remember these first sacrifices so willingly offered in the morning of the rebellion.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/private-daniel-l-ambrose-june-2-1861.html
Diary of William Howard Russell: June 2, 1861 (Russell visits a plantation 62 miles upriver from New Orleans. He tours the slave quarters and meets some neighboring planters.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-2.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 2, 1861 (Inflation already happening in the Confederacy.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-2.html
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3960175/posts#34
Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury
Diary of William Howard Russell: June 3, 1861 (Essay on life on Louisiana sugar plantations and the culture of slavery.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-3.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 3, 1861 (“The regiments are drilled here, and these mostly forwarded to Manassas, where a battle must soon occur, if the enemy, now in overwhelming numbers, should advance.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-3.html
Colonel Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, June 4, 1861 (Col. Jackson won’t provide Mrs. Jackson with military news from Harper’s Ferry except to say he commands the 1st Brigade under Gen. Johnston.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary-anna_3.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 4, 1861 (Jones writes press releases for lack of other useful work.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-4.html
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears
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