Harper’s Weekly – August 31, 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/3988267/posts

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The Battle at Springfield, Missouri – 1-2, 8
Liberty of Speech – 1, 3
British Opinion on the War – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Rip Van Winkle of the Navy Department in Sleepy Hollow – 5
Lieutenant-General Scott and the Major-Generals of the United States Army – 6, 23
The Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment Marching up Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, in a Storm – 7, 14
The Burning of Hampton by the Rebel Forces under Colonel Magruder – 9, 14
Review of the Philadelphia National Guard on Their Return from the War – 10, 14, 16
Present Condition of the New Gun-Boats and Machinery in Course of Construction for the Government by New York Builders – 11-12, 16
Uniforms of United States Volunteers and State Militia – 13
Newport Barracks, Kentucky – 14-15
Fremont at St. Louis – 16-17
Camp Life in the Confederate Army-Mississippians Practicing with the Bowie-Knife – 18
Camp Johnson, Near Winchester, Virginia-The First Maryland Regiment Playing Football before Evening Parade – 19
A Strange Story, by sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. IX-XII – 20-22
The Flag He Fights Under – 23

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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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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 August 14 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3983729/posts#27

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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Major-General John A. Dix to the Honorable Francis P. Blair (Gen. Dix isn’t going to suppress Baltimore newspapers on his own authority.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/major-general-john-dix-to-honorable.html

Diary of Major Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, August 31, 1861 (“Mustered today. I called the roll of our five companies and of McMullen’s Battery.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_9.html

Major Wilder Dwight: August 31, 1861 (The 2nd Massachusetts needs a big coffee roaster – to handle 30-40 lbs. at a time.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/major-wilder-dwight-august-31-1861.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Between July 4 & August 31, 1861 (Since July 4 the 7th Illinois has traveled to Ironton MO.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/01/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: August 31, 1861 (“Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! The Tribune says today that Fremont has declared Missouri to be under martial law and granted freedom to all the slaves.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell-august_95.html

Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, August 31, 1861 (Gen. Grant tells his father where the various Union brigadier generals are at present.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/brigadier-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_9.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 31, 1861 (Due to the Union naval operation at Cape Hatteras, Jones’s family at New Bern NC is on the run again.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-31.html

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Today’s posts:

George B. McClellan, reply #3
John G. Nicolay, #4
“Lee,” #5
Mary Chesnut, #6
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #7

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The “Liberty of Speech” article suggests that good New York liberals have always opposed censorship... right up to the moment when it serves their ends.

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Continued from August 30 (reply #46).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3988267/posts#46

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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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: Sunday, September 1, 1861 (Three thieves drummed out of the regiment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/diary-of-major-rutherford-b-hayes_12.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, September 1, 1861 (Morse’s brigade, still in Maryland, moving ever closer to Washington.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_29.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: September 1, 1861 (“On the 1st of September we received marching orders. All is commotion to-night—many an interrogation is made relating to this thing and that.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/01/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_28.html

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, September 1, 1861 (Lee’s force in western Virginia is paralyzed by sickness and mud.)

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

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 1, 1861 (Jones defends the competence of Secretary of War Walker.)

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

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #10
John G. Nicolay, #11
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #12
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #13
Mary Chesnut, #14
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #15

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Continued from August 10, omitting one section (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3983729/posts#3

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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

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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 from July 23 (reply #68). “I have borne reproach in silence . . .” (second paragraph below) from Davis letter to Leonidas K. Polk written today.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3977607/posts?q=1&;page=68#68

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American