Harper’s Weekly – August 24, 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/3985913/posts

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Prince Napoleon at Washington – 1-3
To Talkers – 1
The Progress of the Week – 2-3
Slavery and the War – 2
The Lounger – 2-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
General McClellan and His Staff – 6, 9
Splendid Charge of United States Cavalry at the Battle of Dug Spring, Missouri – 7, 9
Scenes in the Brooklyn Ship-Yard – 8-9
Camp Warren, Burlington, Iowa, the Rendezvous for the Iowa Troops – 10
The United States Frigate “St. Lawrence” Sinking the Privateer “Petrel” at Sea, August 1, 1861 – 11-12
Batteries at the Chain Bridge – 12
Ghosts and Apparitions – 13-15
The Opponents of the “Unnatural and Fratricidal War” – 15
Colonel Berdan, of the Berdan Sharp-Shooters, Practicing at a Target at Weehawken, New Jersey – 16-17
“Bull’s Run” – 17
Brig.-Gen. Burnside, U.S.A. – 18
The Rebel General Lee – 18
Rules for Preserving the Health of the Soldier: Report of the U.S. Sanitary Commission – 18-20
The United States War Steamer “Minnesota,” Flag-Ship of the Blockading Squadron – 19
A Strange Story, by sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. VII-VIII – 20-22

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

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John Hay to John G. Nicolay, August 24, 1861 (Don’t worry about me. Just have a good time on your vacation.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/john-hay-to-john-g-nicolay-august-24.html

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, August 24, 1861 (Joined the Guthrie Grays at Buckhannon.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_8.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, August 24, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_12.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, August 24, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia_25.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, August 24, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

Major Wilder Dwight: August 24, 1861 (“[Rockville, Maryland is a secession town of the worst kind, but they have not confidence enough yet to do anything more than look cross.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/major-wilder-dwight-friday-august-24.html

John M. Forbes to William Cullen Bryant, August 24, 1861 (Forbes and Bryant seem to fancy themselves managers of the Lincoln administration.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/john-m-forbes-to-william-cullen-bryant.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 24, 1861 (“We are resting on our oars after the victory at Manassas, while the enemy is drilling and equipping 500,000 or 600,000 men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-24.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letter to Gov Magoffin, reply #3
George B. McClellan, #4
Mary Chesnut, #5
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Can you explain the graphics? The captions claim them to have been photographed, but obviously they are engraved in some fashion. Why is that?

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They are woodcuts made from photos. They couldn’t mass-reproduce photos for magazines and newspapers so they did them that way. I don’t know how they made the woodcuts, whether by eye or a more high tech method.

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Thanks. Now, I’m wondering when and how the technology permitted showing actual photos. When it finally did, those woodcutters became extinct.

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Did a little research. Apparently, halftone technology enabled satisfactory photograph publishing by the 1880s.

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An example from 1869 is shown at the link. Still, too late for us.

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Well, you’ll have plenty to work with once you start WW1.

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Wait till you see my photos of Teddy Roosevelt and the Roughriders charging up San Juan Hill. Total click bait.

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I am chomping at the bit.

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Watch for my 130th anniversary coverage beginning April 2028

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My 79th birthday, God willing and Jesus tarrying, will follow on May 1.

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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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Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday August 25, 1861 (“Provisions and provender, i. e. rations and forage, scarce and poor.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_26.html

Major Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, August 25, 1861 (“I have got a new boy — a yellow lad in Guthrie Gray uniform, aged about sixteen, named Theodore Wilson.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_28.html

Major Wilder Dwight: Sunday Morning, August 25, 1861 (Maj. Dwight goes to Washington.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/major-wilder-dwight-sunday-morning.html

Lieutenant William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, August 25, 1861 (“[The 79th] Regiment is, however, now rapidly recovering from the effects of the battle, and the intrigues of the old rum-selling officers now happily resigned.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/lieutenant-william-thompson-lusk-to_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 25, 1861 (Word travels slowly to the Confederate War Department: “News of a battle near Springfield, Mo. McCulloch and Price defeat the Federals, killing and wounding thousands. Gen. Lyon killed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-25.html