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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/3977607/posts

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My Hero – 1
General Prentiss – 1-2
Gen. Edward C. Williams – 1-2
Departure of General Lyon from Boonville – 1, 3
The Signs of the Times – 2
The Lounger – 2-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Battle of Rich Mountain, Virginia, July 13, 1861 – 6
Wilson’s Zouaves in the Ditch and Covered Way on the Land Front of Fort Pickens – 7, 9
Fourth of July at Camp Hamilton, near Fortress Monroe – 8-9
An Infernal Machine – 9
The Battle at Hoke’s Run [page 475 missing from source] – 9
Camp-Life with General Williams’s Brigade [page 474 missing from source] – 9, 12
The Louisiana Zouave Prisoners – 9-10
Yankee Doodle – 11
Arrival of Horses at Washington for the Army – 13
Review of the New York Troops at Washington, by General Sandford, in Presence of the President and Cabinet, July 4, 1861 – 13, 16
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, Ch LVI – 14-16
The War on the Potomac [page 475 missing from source] - 16 How “The Southern Commissioner” Tried to Mould Public Opinion in England – 17
The “French Lady” and Brother Jonathan – 18

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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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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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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Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes, July 27, 1861 (Maj. Hayes in Virginia. He’d better hope his diary doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.)

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

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, July 27, 1861 (Maj. Hayes to his wife. Only some of it should be classified.)

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

Diary of Private Charles Wright Wills: 9 p.m., July 27, 1861 (“We pay five cents a pint here for milk, and I found a wiggler in a pint this morning. Don’t you think they ought to mix clean water with the cow juice?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-private-charles-wright-wills-9.html

Major General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, July 27, 1861 (“The battle will be repeated there in greater force.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/10/major-general-robert-e-lee-to-mary_11.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 27, 1861 (“It is said both Beauregard and Johnston are anxious to cross the Potomac; but what is said is not always true.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-27.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 July 21 (reply #23).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3977607/posts#23

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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Lieutenant-Colonel John Edwards to Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, July 28, 1861 (Secessionist activity at the Iowa border.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/lieutenant-colonel-john-edwards-to.html

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, July 28, 1861 (“Blackberries beyond all experience line the road.”)

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

Major Wilder Dwight: Sunday, July 28, 1861 (“Now, however, instead of all this ecstasy of advance, we are employed in the anxious endeavor to retreat as little as possible.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-wilder-dwight-sunday-july-28-1861.html

Lieutenant William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, July 28, 1861 (Lusk tells his mother the story of Bull Run.)

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

John Lothrop Motley to Mary Benjamin Motley, Monday, July 28, 1861 (“As for the Civil War, nothing could have averted it. It is the result of the forty years’ aggression of the slavery power. Lincoln’s election was a vote by a majority of every free State that slavery should go no further, and then the South dissolved the Union.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/john-lothrop-motley-to-mary-benjamin_12.html

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Louisa Thompson, July 28, 1861 (“Oh! dear Louisa, God’s promise has not failed, and the widow’s son is not only safe, but he has added joy to his mother’s heart by his noble conduct.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/elizabeth-adams-lusk-to-louisa-thompson.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 28, 1861 (Two men looking for the remains of Simon Cameron’s brother are now prisoners of the Confederate War Dept.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-28.html

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Continued from July 26 (reply #90)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3977607/posts?q=1&;page=90#90

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, July 29, 1861 (Hayes describes his picturesque surroundings in western Virginia.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_7.html

Senator James W. Grimes to Elizabeth S. Nealley Grimes, July 29, 1861 (“Our new general is here, and inspires great confidence. Would that we had the same confidence in some of the members of the cabinet!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/senator-james-w-grimes-to-elizabeth-s_26.html

Horace Greeley to Abraham Lincoln, July 29, 1861 (Publisher gives President the benefit of his supposed wisdom.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/horace-greeley-to-abraham-lincoln-july.html

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, July 29, 1861 (“We have made a false start and we have discovered it. It remains only to start afresh.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/george-william-curtis-to-charles-eliot_3.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 29, 1861 (“To-day quite a number of our wounded men on crutches, and with arms in splints, made their appearance in the streets, and created a sensation. A year hence, and we shall be accustomed to such spectacles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-29.html

Charlotte Cross Wigfall to Louise Wigfall, July 29, 1861 (Something about handcuffs.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/charlotte-cross-wigfall-to-louise_21.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 29, 1861 (McGuire is at a convalescent hospital at Mountain View, Virginia.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-july-29-1861.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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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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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

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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