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Harper’s Weekly – June 1, 1861
Harper's Weekly archives ^ | June 1, 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/3962221/posts

1 posted on 06/01/2021 5:22:23 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Major-General Butler – 1-3
The Midnight March – 3
The Character of the War – 3
A Card from Mr. Russell – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Sort of Rig Advisable for Vessels in the Chase of Southern Privateers – 4
Humors of the Day – 5
Domestic Intelligence – 5
Foreign News – 5
The Cabinet of the Confederate States at Montgomery – 6-8
The First Victim of the War – 7
Our Southern Pictures– 7
The Military Occupation of Baltimore – 7, 12
Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee – 7-8
Correspondence: Big Guns; The Fight at Baltimore – 8, 11
A Birds-Eye View of Society-A Juvenile Party, 3 till 7 – 8-11
Fort Pulaski, Savannah River, Georgia – 10
Mr. Russell, Correspondent of the London “Times,” Com. Tatnall, Major Smith and Mr. Ward Inspecting the 10-inch Columbiad at Fort Pulaski – 11
The White House at Montgomery-Rent $5000 a Year – 12
City of Montgomery, Alabama – 12
Drumming up Recruits for the Confederate Army – 12
Relay-House Batteries – 13-14
Our Army at Washington – 15-16
Our Army at Albany – 17-18
Town and Country – 18
The Fight at Saint Louis – 19-20
The Camp at Cairo, Illinois – 21
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch XLII-XLIII – 21-23
Reinforcements for Our Volunteers on the March Southward – 24
A Painful Subject – 25
2 posted on 06/01/2021 5:23:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from May 29 (reply #30).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3962221/posts#30

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

3 posted on 06/01/2021 5:24:40 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued May 24 (reply #38).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3960175/posts#38

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Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

4 posted on 06/01/2021 5:25:30 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

5 posted on 06/01/2021 5:26:26 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears

6 posted on 06/01/2021 5:27:13 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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


7 posted on 06/01/2021 5:28:02 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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


8 posted on 06/01/2021 5:31:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The cavalry engagement Judith McGuire witnessed was at Fairfax Courthouse, not Chantilly, where she wrote the entry.


9 posted on 06/01/2021 6:24:15 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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

10 posted on 06/02/2021 5:21:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

11 posted on 06/02/2021 5:22:19 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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


12 posted on 06/02/2021 5:23:41 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from May 24 (reply #34).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3960175/posts#34

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

13 posted on 06/03/2021 5:39:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

14 posted on 06/03/2021 5:40:49 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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


15 posted on 06/03/2021 5:42:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

16 posted on 06/04/2021 7:15:24 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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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


17 posted on 06/04/2021 7:16:45 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

18 posted on 06/05/2021 7:38:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

19 posted on 06/05/2021 7:40:34 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears

20 posted on 06/05/2021 7:41:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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