Harper’s Weekly – January 25, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | January 25, 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/4030512/posts

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Retirement of Secretary Cameron – 1
Slavery Blocking the Wary – 1
“Little Mac” Out Again – 2
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
The Small Politicians in Congress Cackling at General McClellan – 5
Foreign News – 5
Fort Holt, Kentucky, Opposite Cairo – 6
The Mississippi Expedition – 6, 11, 21
Fortress Monroe and Its Surroundings – 7, 18-8, 16-17
The Burnside Expedition – 8, 16-18
Michael the Dragoon – 9-11
Grand Reception at the White House, January, 1862 – 12
Leeches – 13
A Strange Story, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. LXVIII-LXXI – 13-16
Bowling Green and the Vicinity – 16, 19
Execution of a Private Soldier – 16, 18
Giving the Mitten – 17

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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 January 16 (reply #38).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4028482/posts#38

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, January 25, 1862 (“Great news of a victory at Cumberland Gap. I hope it is true.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_18.html

Major Wilder Dwight: January 25, 1862 (“I hear the best accounts of Mr. Stanton, and he certainly has the confidence of the country.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-wilder-dwight-january-25-1862.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 25, 1862 (“Our attention is taken up watching the operations going on in the harbor, among the shipping.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-january_84.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 25, 1862 (“The French players have been permitted by the Secretary to leave the country. But British subjects are now refused passports.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_57.html

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Today’s posts:

George B. McClellan, reply #3
“Lee,” #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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

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Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 26, 1862 (Meade fears northern “ultras” will cause southerners to resist to the very end of their resources.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_17.html

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, January 26, 1862 (“If this war is ever terminated I intend now to leave the service and live a quiet and, I hope, a happy life at my old home.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/brigadier-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_26.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, January 26, 1862 (Smith occupies the best of all possible worlds among the 54th Ohio regiment he commands.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, January 26, 1862 (“my friend [Robert Latimer] McCook is seriously wounded. Later, not seriously only gloriously wounded. Good!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_21.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, January 26, 1862 (Lusk thumbed his nose at enemy pickets, but not in a vulgar way.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_21.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 26, 1862 (“They are still at work on the Eastern Queen, which seems to be as firmly imbedded in the sand as were her timbers in the soil in which they grew.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-january_39.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 26, 1862 (“President Tyler [d. Jan. 18, 1862] has been elected to Congress -by an overwhelming majority.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_2.html

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Today’s posts:

George B. McClellan, reply #8
John Nicolay, #9
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #10
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

[Saint Athanasius]

Thanks for all info, but could you please remove me from your ping list. Thanks.

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Continued from January 14 (reply #24).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4028482/posts#24

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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

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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, January 27, 1862 (“Rumors of “Secesh” cavalry and troops in various directions.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_83.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 27, 1862 (Unpleasant conditions aboard the Curlew.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-january_20.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, January 27, 1862 (“Gen. Sherman has been long planning some expedition against Fort Pulaski. At length it has started from Hilton Head”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_29.html

John M. Forbes to William Cullen Bryant, January 27, 1862 (“I knew you always as the champion of sound finance. Your article sets forth the effect on the poor; others have been solely looking to its injury to the rich.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/john-m-forbes-to-william-cullen-bryant.html

John M. Forbes to John H. Clifford, January 27, 1862 (“I wish you would give me such a letter to [Secretary Stanton] as will convince him that I do not come on to steal anything from Uncle Sam. In fact my object is quite the reverse”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/john-m-forbes-to-john-h-clifford.html

John M. Forbes to George Ripley, January 27, 1862 (“I regret your continued onslaughts upon Gideon Welles. If they succeed, you will be sure to have some wretched political hunker in his place, and to drive out Fox, the best executive secretary of the navy we ever had”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/john-m-forbes-to-george-riplet-january.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 27, 1862 (“The government seems to have proscribed the great men of the past and their families, as if this government was the property of the few men who happen to wield power at the present moment.”

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_3.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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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #14
Lincoln’s War Order #1, #15
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #16
John G. Nicolay, #17

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You are removed.

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Continued from January 6 (reply #10).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4026614/posts#10

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One