Harper’s Weekly – June 8, 1861

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | June 8, 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.

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/3964086/posts

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General Scott – 1
Colonel Duryee’s Zouaves – 1-2
England and the Rebellion – 1, 3
Our Southern Pictures – 3
Contraband of War – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 5
Foreign News – 5
The Advance Guard of the Grand Army of the United States Crossing the Long Bridge over the Potomac, at 2 A.M. on May 24, 1861 – 6
Ellsworth: A Battle Hymn for Ellsworth’s Zouaves – 7
The Murder of Colonel Ellsworth– 7-8
Ellsworth’s Zouaves – 9
Our Map of the Seat of War – 10, 12
Gen. Cadwallader’s Camp at Baltimore – 10-11
The Advance into Virginia – 10
The Garibaldi Guard – 10, 13-14
The Guthrie Grays – 10, 16
The Excelsior (Gen. Sickles’s) Brigade – 10, 15
The Funeral of Colonel Vosburgh – 10, 17
Sherman’s Battery of Light Artillery, Now in Virginia – 18
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch XLIV-XLV – 19-21
Columbia Awake at Last – 22

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Continued from June 3 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3964086/posts#13

Mr. Stanton’s words to Buchanan about “peculation and fraud,” from the final paragraph of this excerpt, were put in a letter on this date.

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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

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

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Tennessee’s Ordinance of Secession

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/08/tennessees-ordinance-of-secession.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 8, 1861 (Drunken Irishmen exhorting drunken Spaniards to join the Confederate army. The Doctor’s comely wife. Another sugar planter. Stranded in the bayou.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-8.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 8, 1861 (It seems the Confederate Secretary of War is a petty tyrant and a jerk to work for. Maybe not the best choice for the position.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-8.html

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Today’s excerpts:

“The Coming Fury,” reply #3
William Tecumseh Sherman, #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
George Templeton Strong, #6
Links to 3 items from Civil War Notebook, #7

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Continued from June 8 (reply #3).

Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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

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

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Charles Russell Lowell to Anna C. Jackson Lowell, June 9, 1861 (Lowell may become a mail censor while awaiting his commission as Captain of cavalry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/charles-russell-lowell-to-anna-c_24.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, June 9, 1861 (Hayes tells his uncle about his appointment as Major in Col. Rosecrans’s regiment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis-birchard_6.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 9, 1861 (Horse racing in Louisiana.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-9.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 9, 1861 (To-day the Secretary refused to sign the colonel’s letters, telling him to sign them himself — ‘by order of the Secretary of War.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-9.html

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Today’s posts:

“The Coming Fury,” reply #9
Elijah Hunt Rhodes, #10
George Templeton Strong, #11
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #12

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Continued June 6 (reply #24).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3964086/posts#24

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Dr. Joseph T. Webb, June 10, 1861 (Hayes’s regiment is designated the 23rd Ohio Infantry, and he must be fired up about it because he writes 4 letters and a diary entry about the news.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/rutherford-b-hayes-to-dr-joseph-t-webb.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, June 10, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis-birchard_7.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Manning F. Force, June 10, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/rutherford-b-hayes-to-manning-f-force.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, June 10, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes, Monday Morning, June 10-12, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 10, 1861 (Russell describes Donaldsonville, LA, then continues his journey up the Mississippi. Among his fellow passengers are two captured runaway slaves, in irons.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-10.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 10, 1861 (“Yesterday the colonel did not take so many letters to answer; and to-day he looked about him for other duties more congenial to his nature.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-10.html

[M Kehoe]

Professor, imho the illustration of the Chesapeake Bay basin is upside down, and missing a river.

And I've only had one Grolsch.

5.56mm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Are you saying that’s not the Atlantic Ocean off to the west?

I don’t see Fort Pickens (at Pensacola FL) anywhere on that map. Maybe the cartographer had too many Grolschs. Or should that be Grolschen?

[M Kehoe]

My apologies Professor. I was taught how to reconnoiter in the Army many years ago.

Plus, I shouldn't be so nit picky (ut oh...).

5.56mm

[M Kehoe]

Grolschen

Now I have had, Grolschen...

5.56 mm

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Continued from June 9 (reply #9).

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury