Harper’s Weekly – January 4, 1862

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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/4024829/posts

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Our War Illustrations – 1
The “Trent” Question – 1, 3
Christmas Boxes in Camp-Christmas 1861 – 2
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Hard Times in Ole Varginny, a’ Worse a cumin’! – 5
General View of Ship Island, Showing the Landing of General Phelps’s Brigade – 6
Birds-Eye View of the Coast, from Savannah, Georgia, to Beaufort, South Carolina, Showing the Position of Our Fleet, Etc. – 7
Charles Dickens’s New Christmas Stories – 8-15
General Birds-Eye View of Washington and the Vicinity, Showing the Forts, Camps, Railroads, Rivers, Etc. – 16
Gen. Burnside’s Expedition – 17

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Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan

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Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, January 4, 1862 (“I am so sensible now to my disgrace from having exaggerated to force of our enemy in Kentucky that I do think I should have committed suicide were it not for my children.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/09/brigadier-general-william-t-sherman-to_78.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, January 4, 1862 (“Such an immense force as is gathering ought to open the Mississippi River, capture Memphis, New Orleans, and Nashville”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_4.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, January 4, 1862 (“Not a man has been fired at in this brigade for more than a month.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_6.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Dr. Joseph T. Webb, January 4, 1862 (“Our men are generally very healthy; the sick are daily returning, for the most part well.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_7.html

Commandant Samuel F. DuPont to Gustavus V. Fox, January 4, 1862 (A pair of reports from Port Royal.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/04/commandant-samuel-f-dupont-to-gustavus.html

Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, January 4, 1862 — 8 p.m.

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/07/flag-officer-samuel-f-dupont-to.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 4,1862 (Gen. Jackson’s operation foiled by a leak to a Baltimore paper.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_15.html

General Robert E. Lee to Colonel G. W. Custis Lee, January 4, 1862 (“[The enemy] can move with great facility and rapidity and land anywhere he can bring his steamers, and burn, pillage, and destroy and we cannot prevent him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/general-robert-e-lee-to-g-w-custis-lee_8.html

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

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Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 5, 1862 (“I am satisfied this army is gaining nothing by inaction, and that volunteers, beyond a certain point, are not improvable.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_14.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, January 5, 1862 (“Orders issued for a march to Raleigh early Tuesday morning. But I suspect the weather and roads forbid.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_85.html

Major Wilder Dwight to Elizabeth White Dwight, January 5, 1862 (“One regiment of the Third Brigade got back from Williamsport day before yesterday; now it is off again the same thirty miles through the snow. That’s generalship, ain’t it? Who is to blame? No one, of course. Bah!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-wilder-dwight-to-elizabeth-white.html

3rd Sergeant Charles Wright Wills: January 5, 1862 (“We waded about six miles through the mud down the creek and then came back without knowing what we went for.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/3rd-sergeant-charles-wright-wills_5.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 5, 1862 (“Orders have been issued to break camp and go aboard the transports tomorrow morning.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-january-5.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 5,1862 (“There are rumors of a court-martial, and I fear the enterprising Jackson will be made to suffer for the crime of others.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_17.html

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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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Continued from November 9, 1861 (reply #6).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4011123/posts#6

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Major General Henry W. Halleck to Abraham Lincoln, January 6, 1862 (No offensive operations possible at this time. Sorry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, January 6, 1862 (“Rainy and blustering — turning into a big fall of snow soon after noon. . . . A big snow-storm — wind whistling in its wintriest way.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_9.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Dr. Joseph T. Webb, January 6, 1862 (“We go up to Raleigh tomorrow. A considerable march in the winter, if the mud thaws, as now seems likely.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_10.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, January 6, 1862 (“We are now in a region where the resident population is friendly, and we are urged to come to Raleigh by Union citizens for protection.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_11.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 6, 1862 (The 25th Massachusetts boards ship at Annapolis. Ship then anchors in the harbor.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/01/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-january-6.html

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Today’s posts:

Abraham Lincoln, reply #8
George B. McClellan, #9
U.S. Grant, #10
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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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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Abraham Lincoln to Brigadier General Don Carlos Buell, January 7, 1862 (“Please name as early a day as you safely can on or before which you can be ready to move southward in concert with Major-General Halleck.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/abraham-lincoln-to-brigadier-general_2.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Samuel L. M. Barlow [Extract], January 7, 1862 (“The fact is that there seems to be an outbreak of hostility against our republican form of government, combined with a bitter contempt for the administration”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/edwin-m-stanton-to-samuel-l-m-barlow.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, January 7, 1862 (“We shall stay in our comfortable quarters until the snow melts, and the floods abate, and the weather again allows the roads to settle.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_3.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: Tuesday, January 7, 1862 (“I just ran out in the snow to detail four men to run down a suspicious character who is reported as hanging around the hospital and lower part of the village. A queer business this is.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_18.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, January 7, 1862 (Hayes describes his messmates.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_17.html

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Continued from January 1 (reply #22).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4024829/posts#22

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

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

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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Wednesday, January 8, 1862 (“Rode with Adjutant Avery and two dragoons to Raleigh [VA], twenty-four miles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_50.html

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Here’s an item from Civil War Notebook that was posted out of order so I missed it earlier.

Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, January 8, 1862 (Dupont on the problem of some of his reports being made public, but not others. He thinks it unfair to officers whose actions are placed in a bad light.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/08/flag-officer-samuel-f-dupont-to.html

[M Kehoe]

Hi Professor.

If I were to ride four miles on horseback now, I wouldn’t be able to move for a week.

5.56mm