Harper’s Weekly – November 16, 1861

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | November 16, 1861

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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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Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, November 21, 1861 (Meade didn’t enjoy the Grand Review all that much. And he still needs a good horse.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/10/camp-pierpont-va.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday November 21, 1861 (“a nice gentleman, Colonel [Hugh B.] Ewing, but so ‘set in his way.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_29.html

Major Wilder Dwight: Thursday, November 21, 1861, 2:30 p.m. (Thanksgiving logistics: “In other words, about half a ton of turkey, nearly as much goose and chicken, and more than half a ton of plum-pudding.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/major-wilder-dwight-thursday-november.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 21, 1861 (“My mysterious lieutenant was arrested this morning, on the western route, and proved, as I suspected, to be a woman. But Gen. Winder was ordered by the Secretary to have her released.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_20.html

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

He [Jefferson Davis] condemned the successful Union naval assault on Port Royal, South Carolina, as designed "to pillage" and, most frightening, "to incite a servile insurrection in our midst."

So... even Jefferson Davis, in November 1861, can admit Civil War has something to do with slavery.

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"Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck’s General Orders, No. 3." -- Department of Missouri

"1. It has been represented that important information respecting the numbers and condition of our forces is conveyed to the enemy by means of fugitive slaves who are admitted within our lines.
In order to remedy this evil it is directed that no such person be hereafter permitted to enter the lines of any camp or of any forces on the march and that any now within such lines be immediately excluded therefrom."

So contrary to orders from the now removed Gen. John Fremont, Halleck orders that no fugitive slaves be admitted into Union lines.

And there's that word, yet again: "slaves".
For a war which our Lost Causers tell us was not "all about slavery", that word does seem to pop up regularly.

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General Joseph E. Johnston to General Samuel Cooper, November 22, 1861 (Gen. Johnston disagrees with Gen. Jackson’s plans.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/general-joseph-e-johnston-to-general.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to John Sergeant Meade, November 22, 1861 (“You will see from my account to your mother that we who took part in [the Grand Review] had but little appreciation of the fun we were affording others.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/10/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_16.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday November 22, 1861 (“spent an agreeable night with General Rosecrans, Major Crawford, and Captain Reynolds and Major Jos. Darr. Good men all.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, November 22, 1861 (“I have just passed a very pleasant Thanksgiving, and will give you a little description of it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_25.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: November 22, 1861 (“The first death in our regiment occurred this morning. John Shepard of Company B died of typhoid fever.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-november_30.html

“Red Stick” to Isaac M. Keeler, November 22, 1861 (Lengthy description of life in an Ohio regiment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/red-stick-to-isaac-m-keeler-november-22.html

General Robert E. Lee to His Daughters, November 22, 1861

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/general-robert-e-lee-to-his-daughters.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 22, 1861 (“We have information that the enemy have invaded and taken possession of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Accomac and Northampton Counties.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_57.html