Harper’s Weekly – July 27, 1861

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 27, 1861

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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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Gustavus V. Fox to John M. Forbes, July 30, 1861 (“I think the Rover better be fitted for a long cruise towards the line, where her steam might enable her to pick up a privateer in calm latitudes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/gustavus-v-fox-to-john-m-forbes-july-30.html

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, July 30, 1861 (“Just now a fine young first-lieutenant (Jewett of Zanesville) was accidentally shot by a gun falling on the ground out of a stack. A great hole was torn through his foot.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_8.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, July 30, 1861 (“This is the land of blackberries. We are a great grown-up armed blackberry party and we gather untold quantities.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, July 30, 1861 (“The people here are divided. Many of the leading ladies are Secessionists. We meet many good Union men; the other men are prudently quiet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_10.html

Major Wilder Dwight: Tuesday Afternoon, July 30, 1861 (The folks around Harper’s Ferry don’t celebrate the memory of John Brown.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-wilder-dwight-tuesday-afternoon.html

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, July 30, 1861 (“What a summer it is and has been! That nothing shall be wanting, we have a comet, too . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/george-william-curtis-to-charles-eliot_2.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 30, 1861 – First Entry (McGuire pours scorn on the northern ladies who came to watch at Bull Run.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-july-30-1861.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 30, 1861 – Second Entry (News from her home, now occupied by the Yankees.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-july-30-1861_7.html

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Today’s posts:

George B. McClellan, reply #19
“Lee,” #20
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #21
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #22

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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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Major Wilder Dwight: July 31, 1861 (The 2nd Mass. is the last regiment left at Harper’s Ferry – 2 items.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-wilder-dwight-july-31-1861.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, July 30, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse.html

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Wednesday, July 31, 1861 (Hayes’ regiment is to say put for a while – 3 items.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_11.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, July 31, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_13.html

[BroJoeK]

There were two battles in New Mexico this week -- at Mesilla on the 26th and Fort Fillmore on the 27th -- both Confederate victories.
At Fort Fillmore 500 Union troops surrendered to around 300 Confederates, bringing total casualties on both sides so far to around 7,600.

Here then is a summary of 27 engagements to date:

1. Virginia: 6 CSA victories, 3 inconclusive
2. West Virginia: 6 USA victories, 1 CSA victory
3. Missouri: 3 USA victories, 3 CSA victories
4. South Carolina: 1 CSA victory, 1 N/A
5. New Mexico: 2 CSA victories
6. Maryland: 1 USA victory

Including the two engagements at Fort Sumter, there have been now 11 total engagements in two Confederate states, plus 16 engagements in four Union states.
It is, so far, a war of Confederate aggression against the United States.

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
April 12-14	Fort Sumter, SC	Confederate artillery (Beauregard), Union garrison (Anderson)	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) -3,000, CSA infantry (Porterfield) -800	Union 4, CSA 26 (killed or wounded)	USA
June 10	Big Bethel, VA	Union (Butler) -3,500, CSA (Magruder) -1,400	Union 71-total (18-killed); CSA: 10-total (1-killed)	CSA
June 15	Hooe'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: 12-total (8 killed); CSA: none reported	CSA
June 17	Boonville, MO	Union Western Dept (Lyon) -1,700 vs. MO State Guard (Marmaduke) ~1,500	Union: 12-total (5-killed); MO Guard 22-total (5-killed)	USA
June 18	Camp Cole, MO	Union Home Guards (~500) vs. Confederate State Guards (~350)	Union: 120-total (35 killed, 60 wounded 25 captured); CSA: 32-total ( 7-K, 25-W)	CSA
June 27	Matthias' Point, VA	Union gunboats ~50 vs. Confed garrison ~500	Union: 1-killed, 4-wounded; CSA none	CSA
July 2	Hoke's Run, WVA	Union Army of the Shenandoah (2 brigades, Patterson) -8,000 vs. Confederate Army of the Shenandoah (1 brigade, Stonewall Jackson) - 4,000	Union: 70-total (3-killed); CSA 23-total ( 9-killed)	USA
July 5	Carthage, MO	Union Department of the West (Sigel) -- 1,000 vs. Confederate Missouri State Guard (Jackson) -- 4,000	Union: 44-total; CSA 200-total	CSA
July 5	Neosho, MO	Union 3rd Missouri vs. Confederate cavalry	Union: 137-total; CSA zero total	CSA
July 8	Laurel Hill, WVA	Union Dept of Ohio vs. Confederate Army of the Northwest	Union: 8-total; CSA unknown	USA
July 11	Rich Mountain, WVA	Union Department of the Ohio (McClellan & Rosecrans) -7,000 vs. Confederate Army (Pegram & Garnett) -1,300	Union: 46-total; CSA 300-total	USA
July 12	Barboursville, WVA	Union 2nd Kentucky vs. Confederate rangers & locals	Union: 16-total; CSA 1-total	USA
July 13	Corrick's Ford, WVA	Union Department of the Ohio (McClellan & Rosecrans) -20,000 vs. Confederate Army (Garnett) -4,500	Union: 53-total; CSA 620-total CSA Gen. Garnett killed	USA
July 17	Scary Creek, WVA	Union Department of the Ohio (Cox) -1,000 vs. Confederate Army of the Kanawha (Wise & George S. Patton) -800	Union: 51-total; CSA 10-total including Patton wounded	CSA
July 18	Blackburn's Ford, VA (pre-Manassas)	Union Department of NE Virginia (McDowell, Richardson) -3,000 vs. Confederate Army of VA (Beauregard, Longstreet) -5,100	Union: 83-total; CSA 70-total	CSA
July 21	Bull Run/Manassas, VA	Union Department of NE Virginia (McDowell, Patterson) -54,000 (18,000 engaged) vs. Confederate Army of VA (Beauregard, Longstreet) -34,000 (18,000 engaged)	Union: 2,708-total (481-killed); CSA 1,897-total (387-killed)	CSA
July 22	Forsyth, MO	Union Department of the West vs. Confederate Missouri State Guard	Union: 3-total ;Confederates: 15-total	USA
July 25	Mesilla, New Mexico	Union Department of the New Mexico (~300) vs. Confederate 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles (~380 +artillery )	Union: 9-total (2-killed); Confederates: 19-total (13-killed)	CSA
July 27	Fort Fillmore, NM	Union Department of the New Mexico (~500) vs. Confederate 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles (~300)	Union: 500-total (surrendered); Confederates: none	CSA

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Continued from July 7 (reply #7). According to Smith’s footnote #106 below, Lincoln submitted Grant’s name to the Senate for promotion to BG yesterday, and that was noted in the NY Times today, August 1. Search as I might, I could not find that mention in the NYT. He is mentioned as a colonel in the story “Military Movements in Missouri,” in today’s NYT.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3973760/posts#7

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Company Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show: A Memoir of the Civil War, by Sam R. Watkins

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

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Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, August 1, 1861 (“The above is only one of many instances of individual bravery and of the bitter, terrible animosity that exists between the opposing forces. And yet this is only the beginning of what I feel confident will be a long and bloody war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth-budd_21.html

Speech of John Bright [Extract]: August 1, 1861 (Speech of a pro-Union member of the British Parliament.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/speech-of-john-bright-extracted-august.html

Lieutenant William Thompson Lusk to Louisa Thompson, August 1, 1861 (An officer at Washington has leisure to write a humorous letter home.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/lieutenant-william-thompson-lusk-to_21.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 1, 1861 (“Col. Bledsoe again threatens to resign, and again declares he will get the President to appoint me to his place. It would not suit me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-1.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: August 1, 1861 (“The hospitals at Centreville and the Court-House are filled with those who are too severely wounded to be taken to Richmond, Charlottesville, and the larger hospitals.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-august-1-1861.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #27
Sam Watkins, #28
Mary Chesnut, #29
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #30

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If I was posting regularly from Shelby Foote’s CW Narrative as well as Bruce Catton, I probably would have brought the story of the campaign in New Mexico. Foote covers it in some detail. Unfortunately, he didn’t give dates much, and tended to skip back and forth in time, which would make it hard for me to use excerpts in a sensible way.

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Continued from July 26 (reply #89)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3977607/posts?q=1&;page=89#89

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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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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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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Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes, August 2, 1861 (Maj. Hayes on the pistol and rifle range.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_16.html

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Colonel Cyrus Bussey, August 2, 1861 (I gotta go to Washington. Back in 2 weeks. In the meantime, do whatever it takes to protect the lives and property of Iowans.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-colonel.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 2, 1861 (“After some brilliant and successful fights, we have a dispatch to-day stating that Gen. Wise has fallen back in Western Virginia, obeying peremptory orders.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-2.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #33
John G. Nicolay, #34
George B. McClellan, #35
George Templeton Strong, #36
Mary B. Chesnut, #37
Links to 3 items at Civil War Notebook, #38