Harper’s Weekly – August 10, 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: 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/3981637/posts

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Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton – 1-2
A Strange Story, by sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. I-II – 1-4
The Lesson of Defeat – 4
Cabinet Changes – 4
The Lounger – 4-5
Up With the Flag – 5
The Retreat – 6, 18
The Fire Zouaves and the Black Horse Cavalry – 7, 18
The Wounded at the Battle of Bull Run – 8, 18
Silencing the Enemy’s Batteries at the Battle of Bull Run – 9
The Yacht “Henrietta,” 100 Tons, Lieutenant James G. Bennett, Jun., Commanding, Now Attached to the Revenue Service – 10
Sandy Hook, Head-Quarters of Colonel Stone, on the Upper Potomac – 11, 15
The Battle of Bull Run, 2 P.M. July 21, 1861 – 12
Map of the Seat of War in Virginia – 13
Balloon View of the Fortress Monroe and the Mouth of the Chesapeake – 14
Charge of the Sixty-Ninth – 15
Sandy Hook, Head-Quarters of Colonel Stone, on the Upper Potomac – 11, 16
The Late Colonel Cameron – 16
Colonel Corcoran – 16
The Fourth South Carolina Regiment Working in the Trenches at Night at Manassas Junction – 17
The Indiana Brigade – 18
Concerning Fire-Arms – 18
Humors of the Day – 18-19
Domestic Intelligence – 19-20
An Unwelcome Return – 19
Foreign Intelligence – 20
Dictator Greeley – 20
The Albany Contractors who have “influence at Washington and . . . Their Victim – 21

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Continued from August 7 (reply #18)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3981637/posts#18

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

Illustrated Atlas of The Civil War: Echoes of Glory

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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 August 6 (reply #12).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3981637/posts#12

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Continued from August 1 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3979583/posts#27

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, August 10, 1861 (“While the right wing of our regiment occupied the court-house at Sutton, many records were torn up. Disgraceful! What a stigma on our regiment if true!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_31.html

Major Wilder Dwight: Saturday Night, August 10, 1861 (Major Dwight describes his day in bivouac.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/major-wilder-dwight-saturday-night.html

Brigadier General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, August 10, 1861 (Gen. Jackson saw Prince Napoleon in passing.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/brigadier-general-thomas-j-jackson-to_22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 10, 1861 (“Some intimations have been thrown out that [Mr. Benjamin] aspires to become, some day, Secretary of War.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-10.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: August 10, 1861 (“Nothing new from the army. All seems quiet; no startling rumours within the past week.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-august-10-1861.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” Map from “Echoes of Glory,” reply #3
“Team of Rivals,” #4
George B. McClellan, #5
“Lee,” #6
“Grant,” #7
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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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 Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, August 11, 1861 (The men in his regiment didn’t behave disgracefully, after all. But occupation duty has its difficulties.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Major Wilder Dwight: Sunday Morning, August 11, 1861 (Dwight concludes his description of camp life he began yesterday.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/major-wilder-dwight-sunday-morning.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, August 11, 1861 (Tedious duty at Maryland Heights, with occasional firing across the Shenandoah.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_20.html

Lieutenant William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, August 11, 1861 (Details of Bull Run. The 79th NY may or may not return to New York.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/lieutenant-william-thompson-lusk-to.html

Private William McKinley to W. K. Miller, August 11, 1861 (The 23rd Ohio is scattered all over western Virginia.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/private-william-mckinley-to-w-k-miller.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 11, 1861 (“There is a whisper that something like a rupture has occurred between the President and Gen. Beauregard.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-11.html

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Shouldn't the title be "All for Ending Slavery: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes"

I guess Elisha didn't get the White Hut memo.

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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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James Harrison Wilson, The Life of General John A. Rawlins

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Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant to Mary Frances Grant, August 12, 1861 (“I should like to be sent to Western Virginia, but my lot seems to be cast in this part of the world.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/brigadier-general-ulysses-s-grant-to.html

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, August 12, 1861 (“a squad of the Tenth Regiment returned from the Buckhannon road with the body of one of the wild men of the mountains found in this country. They probably killed him after taking him prisoner in cold blood — perhaps after a sort of trial. They say he was attempting to escape.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_6.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, August 12, 1861 (“The threatened invasion by Lee from eastern Virginia hangs fire.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

Major Wilder Dwight: Monday, August 12, 1861 (“Rain! rain! rain! since yesterday noon. And such a night! Pouring water, India-rubber blankets!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/major-wilder-dwight-monday-august-12.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, August 12, 1861 (“It rained, pouring, all night; our rubber blankets were our only protection.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_25.html

John M. Forbes to Charles Francis Adams, August 12, 1861 (Forbes wants to organize a volunteer navy. I guess to supplement the existing U.S. Navy.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/john-m-forbes-to-charles-francis-adams.html

John Lothrop Motley to Mary Benjamin Motley, August 12, 1861 (“I have just been notified of my appointment as minister to Austria.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/john-lothrop-motley-to-mary-benjamin_19.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 12, 1861 (A fellow in Louisiana wants to raise a Polish regiment and become their Brigadier General. President Davis says nah, colonel, maybe.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-12.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: August 12, 1861 (“General Scott, too, has been almost superseded by General McClellan, who seems just now to be the idol of the North.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-august-12-1861.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln proclamation, reply #13
George B. McClellan, #14
“The Life of John A. Rawlins,” #15
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #16

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central_va: "Shouldn't the title be "All for Ending Slavery: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes""

Slavery was a major issue, even in the Civil War's earliest days, with some Union generals refusing to return runaway slaves to their Confederate "masters".

So, just "this week" (Aug 6, 1861) Lincoln signed the first Confiscation Act of 1861, which defined slaves as "property" used in the Confederate war effort and so subject to confiscation.
There will be more such actions, including Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation before the 13th Amendment abolished slavery even in loyal Union states.

And since virtually every Confederate leader was also a slaveholder, these Union actions cannot have gone unnoticed.

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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