Harper’s Weekly – January 11, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | January 11, 1862

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Diary of Edward Bates: January 13, 1862 (Bates was out of the loop on the Stanton decision, but, thinking about it, that’s OK.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-edward-bates-january-13-1862.html

Robert C. Grier to Edwin M. Stanton, January 13, 1862 (USSC Associate Justice Grier urges Stanton to accept position of War Secretary.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/robert-c-grier-to-edwin-m-stanton.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, January 13, 1862 (If Dr. Joe doesn’t want to be surgeon of Hayes’s regiment, then he should do something else.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_23.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B Hayes: January 13, 1862 (Hayes doing something about Fayetteville bushwhackers. It’s not exactly clear what he is doing.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_28.html

Major Wilder Dwight: January 13, 1862 (The regimental band is winning praise in Frederick.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-wilder-dwight-january-13-1862.html

3rd Sergeant Charles Wright Wills: January 13, 1862 (“Some ‘damb’d’ hounds shot four of our 7th cavalry boys dead a couple of mornings since. It was regular murder.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/3rd-sergeant-charles-wright-wills_8.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 13, 1862 (“At 1 p.m., we dropped anchor in front of the battery at Hatteras inlet, in the midst of a terrific southeast storm.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-january.html

John M. Forbes to Senator William P. Fessenden, January 13, 1862 (Man of business Forbes advises Sen. Fessenden on how the government should finance the war.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/john-m-forbes-to-william-p-fessenden.html

John L. Motley to Mary Lothrop Motley, January 13, 1862 (The Minister to Austria writes to his daughter back home. Mostly about the lessons of the Trent affair.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/john-l-motley-to-mary-lothrop-motley.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 13, 1862 (Are Gen. Wise’s higher-ups plotting to get rid of him?)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_94.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #15
“Lincoln,” #16
Lincoln letter to Buell and Halleck, #17
George B. McClellan, #18
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #19
Mary Chesnut, #20
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #21

[M Kehoe]

I continue to enjoy the illustrations.

Thanks.

5.56mm

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Continued from November 9, 1861 (reply #5).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4011123/posts#5

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Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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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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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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Message of Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to the Legislature of Iowa, January 14, 1862 (State of the State of Iowa)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/message-of-governor-samuel-j-kirkwood.html

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Colonel William T. Shaw, January 14, 1862 (Kirkwood sends instructions to the CO of the 14th Iowa Regiment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/i-am-well-assured-you-are-doing-all-in.html

Samuel Medary & James H. Smith to Edwin M. Stanton, January 14, 1862 (dated 1861 at the source but appears to be 1862) (Medary, an Ohio newspaper man, and another guy want Stanton to take the Secretary of War job.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/samuel-medary-james-h-smith-to-edwin-m.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B Hayes: Tuesday, January 14, 1862 (Hayes examines the papers of departed CSA General Alfred Beckley.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_29.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 14, 1862 (Gen. Burnside has taken some men on a tug to attempt a rescue of people from the beached steamer City of New York.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-january_28.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: January 14, 1862 (“Early this morning the Seventh takes up the line of march for Blandville, Kentucky, to join McClernand’s Division, already marched on before us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_76.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #24
John G. Nicolay, #25
George B. McClellan, #26
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #27
Frederick Douglass, #28
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #29

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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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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 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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Joseph Holt to Abraham Lincoln, January 15, 1862 (Edwin Stanton is endorsed by the other candidate for the War Secretary position.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/joseph-holt-to-abraham-lincoln-january.html

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood’s Second Inaugural Address, January 15, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/governor-samuel-j-kirkwoods-second.html

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, January 15, 1862 (“Another Bull Run, and Washington is gone.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/brigadier-general-john-sedgwick-to-his.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Wednesday, January 15, 1862 (“Two more contrabands yesterday. These runaways are bright fellows. As a body they are superior to the average of the uneducated white population of this State.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_31.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 15, 1862 (“The colonel, surgeon and one other man of the 9th New Jersey regiment were drowned today, by the upsetting of a small boat they were in.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-january_5.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: January 15, 1862 (“This morning we wait for the arrival of General Smith’s command. After their arrival, we move forward.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_85.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 15, 1862 (“I look for a long war, unless a Napoleon springs up among us, a thing not at all probable”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_24.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letter to Halleck, reply #31
George B. McClellan, #32
John G. Nicolay, #33
George Templeton Strong, #34
Mary Chesnut, #35
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #36

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Continued December 25, 1861 (reply #17).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4023175/posts#17

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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James Buchanan to Harriet R. Lane, January 16, 1862 (“Well, our friend Stanton has been appointed Secretary of War. I presume, without knowing, that this has been done by the influence of General M’Clellan.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/james-buchanan-to-harriet-r-lane.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 16, 1862 (“Every one seems relieved at the change in the War Department,1 though the secret cause is as yet unknown, some putting it on his political faith, others on his want of integrity, etc., etc.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_15.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, January 16, 1862 (“I thought it was Wednesday, and by a bet with Lieutenant Reichenbach lost a bottle of wine and the sardines.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, January 16, 1862 (“These leaves of absence are so abused, that in the absence of some great necessity, I would not leave my regiment unless plenty of officers remain.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, January 16, 1862 (“I was at Camp Hayes, twenty-five miles further south, last week. They have pretty active times there with a few Rebel bushwhackers that infest the roads.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_5.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 16, 1862 (These beachhead landing operations are a tricky business.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-january_17.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: January 16, 1862 (“Mud! mud! everywhere, the situation looks critical.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_62.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 16, 1862 (Jones catches the War Secretary giving misinformation.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_27.html