Harper’s Weekly – June 15, 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/3966015/posts

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The Murder of Ellsworth – 1-2
The Union-In the Future – 1, 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
How Virginia was Voted Out of the Union – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
My Little Sweetheart – 5
Capture of Secession Cavalry at Alexandria – 6-7
Our Illustrations of Fort Pickens – 7-9
Colonel Morehead’s Camp at Baltimore – 7, 9
Bivouac of Confederate Troops on the Las Moras, Texas, with Stolen U.S. Wagons, etc. – 10, 19
United States Volunteers Throwing Up Intrenchments on Arlington Heights – 11
Brilliant Charge of United States Cavalry Through the Village of Fairfax Court House on May 31, 1861 – 11, 19
The City of Cairo, Illinois, as Seen from the Camp – 11, 19
Camp Anderson – 12-13
Occupation of Alexandria – 12
Fort Wayne, Michigan– 12, 14
Camp Scott-Freeport, Illinois – 15
Captain Saler’s Encampment, West of St. Louis, Missouri – 16
Shooting Rebel Prowlers – 17
Capture of Rebel Steamers – 18-19
Douglas: Born April 23, 1813, Died June 3, 1861 – 19
The Whitworth Gun Sent from England – 19-20
Grafton, Virginia, Now Occupied by General McClellan’s Forces – 20
Newport News – 20-21
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch XLVI-XLVII – 20-23
Sketches Made or Picked up by Our Eccentric Artist at the Seat of War – 24

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Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 15, 1861 (Jones is resolved to carry on, despite the office politics.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-15.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 15, 1861 (“Yesterday was set apart by the President as a day of prayer and fasting, and I trust that throughout the Confederacy the blessing of God was invoked upon the army and country.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-15-1861.html

[M Kehoe]

Damn Professor, Harper’s has everything these days.

Close order combat, close order drill, ambushes, troop encampments and movements and assorted other tid bits for Rebel spies.

The NYT and Harper’s weekly should be censured, imho.

5.56mm

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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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Diary of Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, June 16, 1861 (Maj. Hayes is acting CO of the Camp and it is a little unnerving.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/diary-of-rutherford-b-hayes-sunday-june.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, June 16, 1861 (Life at Camp Jackson.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 16, 1861 (Russell gets a lecture on dueling as it is practiced in Mississippi, then boards train for Memphis, in the company of drunken soldiers heading for Corinth.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-16.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 16, 1861 (Jones is in charge of the War Department since everybody else is sick or has ceased to write.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-16.html

James Chesnut Jr. to Mary Boykin Chesnut, June 16, 1861 (Chesnut is with Gen. Beauregard at Manassas Junction.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/james-chesnut-jr-to-mary-boykin-chesnut.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 16, 1861 (“I do not believe there is a woman among us who would not give up every thing but the bare necessaries of life for the good of our cause.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-16-1861.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 16, 1861 – Night (McGuire belatedly gets word of the battle at Big Bethel.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-16-1861_16.html

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Continued from May 24 (reply #X)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3960175/posts#37

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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George L. Stearns to Mary Hall Stearns, June 17, 1861 (Kansas regiments and fugitive slaves.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/george-l-stearns-to-mary-hall-stearns.html

Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, June 17, 1861 (“I am not so hopeful about the future as you are — the Administration seem to me sadly in want of a policy — the war goes on well, but the country will soon want to know exactly what the war is for.”)

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

John Lothrop Motley to Mary Benjamin Motley, June 17, 1861 (Events in Washington. Sec. Seward, Lord Lyons, Gen. McDowell.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/john-lothrop-motley-to-mary-benjamin.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 17, 1861 (Russell’s train arrives at Memphis. He embarks on a steamer with Gen. Pillow for an inspection tour up the river.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-17.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 17, 1861 (“To-day there was a rumor in the streets that Harper’s Ferry had been evacuated by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and, for the first time, I heard murmurs against the government.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-17.html

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Continued from June 11 (reply #22).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3966015/posts#22

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Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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I’m on the road and don’t have time to preview the Civil War Notebook items today.

Congressman Owen Lovejoy to William Cullen Bryant, June 18, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/owen-lovejoy-to-william-cullen-bryant.html

George L. Stearns to Mary Hall Stearns, June 18, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/george-l-stearns-to-mary-hall-stearns_30.html

John Lothrop Motley to Mary Benjamin Motley, June 18, 1861 (Motley’s presence in Washington is mentioned in the NY Times today.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/john-lothrop-motley-to-mary-benjamin_29.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 18, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-18.html

Colonel Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, June 18, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/brigadier-general-thomas-j-jackson-to.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 18, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-18.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 18, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-18-1861.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 18, 1861 – Night

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-18-1861_18.html

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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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

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

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Diary of Rutherford B. Hayes: June —, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/diary-of-rutherford-b-hayes-june-1861.html

Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott to Major-General John A. Dix, June 19, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/lieutenant-general-winfield-scott-to.html

Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, June 19, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/charles-russell-lowell-to-anna-jackson_26.html

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 19, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-william-howard-russell-june-19.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 19, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-19.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 19, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-19-1861.html

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Today’s Posts:

President Lincoln to Ninian W. Edwards, reply #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
Mary B. Chesnut, #13
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Only 6 items.

[BroJoeK]

This listing includes the Battle of Booneville, MO.
I count 13 encounters in five states, resulting in 229 Union killed or wounded, 108 Confederates and maybe 240 civilian rioters in Baltimore & St. Louis.
Typically, ~1/3 of total is the number killed.

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
April 12-14	Fort Sumter, SC	Confederate artillery, Union garrison	None	CSA
April 15	Evacuation of Fort Sumter, SC	Union garrison	Two Union soldiers killed, four wounded by accidental explosion	N.A.
April 19	Baltimore Riots, MD	MA 6th, PA 26th vs secessionist crowd	4 Union soldiers killed, 12 civilians killed, hundreds wounded	USA
May 10	St. Louis Riots, MO	Union forces vs secessionist crowd	4 Union soldiers killed, 3 prisoners, 28 civilians killed	USA
May 18-19	Sewell's Point, VA	Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery	10 total	inconclusive
May 29- June 1	Aquila Creek, VA	Union naval squadron vs Confederate shore artillery	10 total	inconclusive
June 1	Fairfax Court House, VA	detachments from CSA & USA armies	8 on each side, 1 each killed	inconclusive
June 3	Philippi, WVA	Union Dept of Ohio (McClellan), CSA infantry	Union 4, CSA 26 (killed or wounded)	USA
June 10	Big Bethel, VA	Union: 3,500 (Butler) , CSA 1,400 (Magruder)	Union 18-killed 53-wounded, CSA: 1-K 9-W	CSA
June 15	Hoo's Ferry (near Mathias Point) VA	Union schooner Christina Keen; CSA Farmer's Fork Grays	none -- Christina Keen captured and burned	CSA
June 17	Vienna, VA	Detachments from both Union & CSA armies	Union: 8 killed, 4 wounded; CSA: none reported	CSA
June 17	Boonville, MO	Union Western Dept (Lyon) 1,700 vs. MO State Guard (Marmaduke) ~1,500	Union: 5-killed, 7-wounded, MO Guard 5-k 17-w	USA
June 18	Camp Cole, MO	Union Home Guards (~500), Confederate State Guards (~350)	Union: 35 killed, 60 wounded 25 captured CSA: 7-K, 25-W	CSA

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Continued from June 1 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3964086/posts#3

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

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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 Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears