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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: May 2025.
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/3973760/posts

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Brig.-General Lyon, U.S.A. – 1-2
The Late Capt. Ward, U.S.N. – 1-2
The Battle of Boonville – 1, 3
The Leaders of the Nation – 1-2
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4-5
Domestic Intelligence – 5
Foreign News – 5
The Bomb-Shell (Gen. Scott) and the Rat-Hole– 5
Fort M’Henry and Marshal Kane – 6, 18
Virginia Troops Crossing the Blue Ridge at Daybreak, en Route for Manassas Junction – 7
The Cabinet at Washington – 8
How Volunteers are Treated in Philadelphia – 9, 14
Crew of the United States Steam-Sloop “Colorado,” Shipped at Boston, June 1861 – 10, 14
Winfield Scott at 75, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Army – 11
Major-General Scott, at 41 – 12
A Slave Auction at the South – 13, 20
A Bomb-Proof Battery – 14
The Virginian Army – 14
Gun-Boats Fitting Out at Cincinnati, Ohio, for Government Service on the Mississippi – 15
Major General John C. Fremont, in His Prairie Costume– 16
General Beauregard’s Camp of Confederate Troops at White Springs, Virginia, near the Manassas Gap Railroad – 17
All is Well – 18
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch LIII – 18-20
The Situation – 21
Double-Quick Step to Richmond – 21

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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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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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Colonel Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, July 13, 1861 (“You ask if I should not like to go in the regular army. I should not. I want to bring my children up to useful employment, and in the army the chance is poor.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/colonel-ulysses-s-grant-to-jesse-root.html

Wilder Dwight to Elizabeth White Dwight, Saturday, July 13, 1861 (“Our regiment is a part of what is called General Patterson’s column, and we are on the advance post.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/wilder-dwight-to-elizabeth-white-dwight_12.html

John M. Forbes to Captain Matthews, July 13, 1861 (Forbes must be a shipping tycoon as well as a railroad magnate. Today he instructs the masters of 2 ships on dealing with Confederate privateers.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/john-m-forbes-to-captain-matthews-july.html

John M. Forbes to W. P. Lee, July 13, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/john-m-forbes-to-w-p-lee-july-13-1861.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 13, 1861 The trials of “Col. B.” (Albert Taylor Bledsoe).

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-13.html

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Situation: Virginia, mid-July 1861

Shelby Foote, The Civil War Narrative, Volume One, Fort Sumter to Perryville

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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 July 11 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3973760/posts#25

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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Sullivan Ballou to his wife, Sarah (The moving letter made famous by the Ken Burns Civil War series.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/09/sullivan-ballou-to-his-wife-sarah.html

John Lothrop Motley to Mary Benjamin Motley, July 14, 1861 (Motley attended the funeral of Mrs. Longfellow and opines on the current situation of the Union army.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/john-lothrop-motley-to-mary-benjamin_22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 14, 1861 (Secretary of War Leroy Walker is sick again.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-14.html

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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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Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, July 15, 1861 (Lowell seems to be on a recruiting drive in western PA and OH.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/captain-charles-russell-lowell-to-anna_31.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, July 15, 1861 (The 2nd Massachusetts Infantry is at Martinsburg in present-day eastern West Virginia.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_26.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 15, 1861 (Col. Bledsoe relieves Maj. Tyler as temporary War Secretary.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-15.html

Louise Wigfall to Francis H. Wigfall, July 15, 1861 (Mrs. Wigfall is in hostile Massachusetts, complaining about Yankee propaganda.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/louise-wigfall-to-francis-h-wigfall.html

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Continued from July 4 (reply #32), after skipping one section.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3971894/posts#32

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

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

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Continued from June 30 (reply #11)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3971894/posts#11

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James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

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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