Harper’s Weekly – July 6, 1861

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1861-1865: 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/3971894/posts

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The Wheeling Convention – 1-2
The War – 1
A New Serial by Bulwer – 1
The Extra Session – 1, 3
The Lounger – 3-4
One Man Sows and Another Reaps – 4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Jefferson City, Missouri – 6
Map of the Interior of the State of Missouri – 7
Birds-Eye View of the Mississippi River and the Adjacent Country, from St. Louis to the Gulf of Mexico – 8
Scenes of Camp and Army Life in General Williams’s Brigade – 9
The Encampment of the First Connecticut Volunteers at Roach’s Springs, Virginia – 10, 14
The Battle of Romney-Skirmish at the Bridge – 11
Grand Review of General M’Dowell’s Corps d’Armee, by Secretary Cameron, on the South Side of the Potomac, June 17, 1861 – 12, 14
Tennessee Riflemen Entering Winchester from Strasburg, on Their Way to Join the Virginia Army – 13-14
The Battle at Philippi – 14-15
Evacuation of Harper’s Ferry – 14, 16-17
Fording the Potomac at Williamsport – 14, 18
A Texan Ranger – 14
The War in Missouri– 14
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch LII – 19-20
Another Prize for the Secessionists – 21

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

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Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, July 6, 1861 (How the 26th Ohio spent Fourth of July.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_22.html

Jefferson Davis to Abraham Lincoln, July 6, 1861 (President Davis tells President Lincoln he thinks they should exchange prisoners.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/jefferson-davis-to-abraham-lincoln-july.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 6, 1861 (“No army news to be relied on. We spent our time as usual. Knitting for the soldiers is our chief employment. Several suits of clothes for them are in progress in the house.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-july-6-1861.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 6, 1861 (Continuing personnel problems in the War Department.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-6.html

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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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Continued from July 3 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3971894/posts#27

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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

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

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Private Daniel L. Ambrose: July 7, 1861 (The enlistment period for the 7th Illinois is nearing its end. Most of the men say they will reenlist.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/private-daniel-l-ambrose-july-7-1861.html

John Lothrop Motley to Mary Benjamin Motley, July 7, 1861 (The view from Boston.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/john-lothrop-motley-to-mary-benjamin_8.html

Colonel Turner Ashby to Dora Ashby Moncure, July 7, 1861 (Ashby is a cavalry commander under Gen. Thomas Jackson.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/colonel-turner-ashby-to-dora-ashby.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 7, 1861 (The more cavalry, the better, thinks Jones.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-7.html

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Today’s posts:

John G. Nicolay, reply #6
“Grant,” #7
George B. McClellan, #8
George Templeton Strong, #9
Mary B. Chesnut, #10
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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

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Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, July 8, 1861 (Hayes’s regiment had evidently been holding some Confederate P.O.W.’s, which they recently exchanged for Union men.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_23.html

William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, July 8, 1861 (Lusk enjoys jesting about invading the sacred soil of Virginal.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/william-thompson-lusk-to-elizabeth_24.html

Brigadier-General P. G. T. Beauregard to Louis T. Wigfall, July 8, 1861 (Beauregard is expecting a Union attack on his force at Manassas.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/brigadier-general-p-g-t-beauregard-to.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 8, 1861 (John Henry Winder is in Richmond, applying for a general’s commission in the Confederate Army.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-8.html

[M Kehoe]

Harpers Weekly is great. I’ve commented on the illustrations etc a few times.

But damn Professor, can’t they get some geography, maps and directions correct.

Sheesh.

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

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George William Curtis to John J. Pinkerton, July 9, 1861 (“I envy no other age. I believe with all my heart in the cause, and in Abe Lincoln. His message is the most truly American message ever delivered.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/george-william-curtis-to-john-j.html

Wilder Dwight to Elizabeth White Dwight, July 9, 1861 (“We are off this afternoon. Good by. God bless you.” Another prolific letter writer and diarist is off to war.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/wilder-dwight-to-elizabeth-white-dwight.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 9, 1861 (Shuffling in the Confederate cabinet and among army generals.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-9.html

William T. Walters to Frances Halsey Cross, July 9, 1861 (Getting from Baltimore to Richmond is a challenge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/william-t-walters-to-frances-halsey.html

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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