Harper’s Weekly – November 16, 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/4011123/posts

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The Retirement of General Scott – 1-2
The War in Missouri – 1
General Scott – 3
The Disappointments of the Traitors – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
A Cock and a Bull Story – 5
The Great Naval Expedition – 6-8
Searching for Arms in a Rebel’s House in Southern Maryland – 9
A Scouting Party – 10, 18
Scenes from Missouri – 11-14
Saving a Patient – 15-16
The Tuberose: A Story of the War – 16-17
General Kelley – 18
General McDowell M’Cook – 18
Slave-Hunters in Trouble – 18-19
Beef for the Army Crossing the Long Bridge at Washington – 20
A Strange Story, by sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. XXXVI-XXXVIII – 21-23

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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

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Major-General John A. Dix to Secretary William H. Seward, November 16, 1861 (On secessionist sentiment in Baltimore.)

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

Colonel John Sedgwick to Governor Edwin D. Morgan, November 16, 1861 (Sedgwick praises 2 NY volunteer regments.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-john-sedgwick-to-governor-edwin.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday November 16, 1861 (“General Benham’s brigade marched back towards Gauley. Colonel Scammon went on reconnaissance towards Raleigh”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_18.html

Major Wilder Dwight: November 16, 1861 (“Fruit ripe in South Carolina, and no one to pick it. That’s the way I read the news from the scene of our late success.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/major-wilder-dwight-november-16-1861.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: November 16, 1861 (“There are a great many negroes strolling around the camps, most of them runaways, and as Maryland is supposed to be a loyal state, we have no right to take sides and afford them protection.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/08/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-november_22.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: November 16, 1861 (Pay day.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_28.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 16, 1861 (Passports, still.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_16.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, November 16, 1861 (Gen. Jackson longs for Mary Anna to join him in Winchester.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_15.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Margaret Junkin Preston, November 16, 1861 (Someone known to Jackson and the poet Margaret Preston has died.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-thomas-j-jackson-to_17.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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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

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Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, November 17, 1861 (“People who think the war is about to close, because we have achieved one signal success, are very short-sighted.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/10/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_14.html

Rose O’Neal Greenhow to William H. Seward, November 17, 1861 (An imprisoned Confederate spy writes to the Secretary of State.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/rose-oneal-greenhow-to-william-h-seward.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday November 17, 1861 (“A party of Rebels from Floyd’s army met us here with a flag of truce. It seemed absurd to be fighting such civil and friendly fellows.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_21.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 17, 1861 (Passports for letter-carriers. Jones doesn’t like it.0

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_17.html

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Continued from November 9 (reply #4).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4011123/posts#4

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

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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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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday November 18, 1861 (“Heard cannon firing down Kanawha and got ready some rail barricades under direction of Colonel Ewing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_22.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: November 18, 1861 (“To-day the Paymaster finishes paying the regiment. The men are now flush with the “collaterals” and in consequence the sutlers and swindlers are trying to play their hands.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_90.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 18, 1861 (“To-day the Secretary told me that he had authentic information of the seizure of Messrs. Slidell and Mason, our commissioners to Europe, by Capt. Wilkes, of the U. S. Navy”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_92.html

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

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Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Tuesday, November 19, 1861 (“I met a party of Georgians yesterday with a flag of truce; had a good friendly chat with them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_11.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday November 19, 1861 (“General Schenck sick — not health enough for this work.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_23.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: November 19, 1861 (Two false alarms of Confederate attacks.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_22.html

Major Wilder Dwight: November 19, 1861 (Wilder leads the 2nd Massachusetts regiment as it is reviewed by Gen. McClellan.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/major-wilder-dwight-november-19-1861.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 19, 1861 (The French Consul applies for a passport and is declined.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_56.html

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It is true that some in the British Government wanted to recognize the South as a nation and exchange diplomats. The cessation of the cotton trade hurt many in the upper class.

However, the issue wasn't as cut and dried as many believe today. The working class in Manchester, many of whom were thrown out of work, overwhelmingly supported the North and the antislavery cause.

Britain had long ago lost the ability to feed itself. Most of its wheat imports came from the North.

Britain had only recently ended the Crimea War and was in no mood to jump into another war. So, it could not afford to go to war against the US. Plus, the North would soon have an Army with huge numbers of soldiers, who could threaten a long and vulnerable Canadian border.

After Antietam and the Emancipation Proclamation, those in the UK pushing for recognition abandoned the effort.

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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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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

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Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck’s General Orders, No. 3.

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/11/general-orders-no-3.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Wednesday November 20, 1861 (“Once taught to respect the North, [the people of western Virginia] will come to terms gladly, I think.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_25.html

Major Wilder Dwight: November 20, 1861 (“The cooks are busy over to-morrow’s dinner. Picking and dressing turkeys, and preparing the large, glowing ovens for roasting.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/major-wilder-dwight-november-20-1861.html

3rd Sergeant Charles Wright Wills: November 20, 1861 (Gen. Jeff Thompson is proving a problem to the Yankees in Missouri.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/3rd-sergeant-charles-wright-wills_11.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: November 20, 1861 (Day describes his tour of Annapolis.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/09/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-november.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: November 20, 1861 (“To-day the camp is alarmed by the firing of the picket guards. Nothing hostile, however, is discovered. All is quiet this evening.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_49.html

Nassau W. Senior to John M. Forbes, November 20, 1861 (Englishman Senior is not happy with American behavior towards Great Britain.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/nassau-w-senior-to-john-m-forbes.html

Secession Ordinance of Kentucky

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/secession-ordinance-of-kentucky.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Judah P. Benjamin, November 20, 1861 (Jackson has suggestions for the Secretary of War.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-judah.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 20, 1861 (A full-breasted officer curtsies to Jones, rather than salute, leading him to suspect the officer might be female.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_18.html

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Today’s posts:

John G. Nicolay, reply #15
George B. McClellan, #16
George Templeton Strong, #17
Mary B. Chesnut, #18
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #19