Harper’s Weekly – February 1, 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/4032473/posts

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Destruction of a Schooner Off the Coast of Georgia – 1-2
The Pirate “Sumter” – 1, 3
Currency and Taxation – 1-2
The Lounger – 2-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Cavalry Picket at Hancock, Maryland – 6
General Kelley and Staff – 6-7
Our Army on Green River – 8-9
On the Kentucky Border – 9-11
The Mississippi Expedition – 11-12
The “Pensacola” at Sea – 11, 17
General Burnside’s Expedition at Fort Monroe – 11, 18
Returned Prisoners from Richmond – 11, 19
Commander Porter’s Mortar Flotilla – 13, 16
A Strange Story, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. LXXII-LXXIII – 14-16
Missing: Private William Smith – 20
Tangled and Raveled – 20-22
The New Zoological Specimens – 22

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

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Battle Hymn of The Republic, by Julia Ward Howe

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/battle-hymn-of-republic.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: February 1, 1862 (A cold, wet horse ride of 16 miles.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: February 1, 1862 (The 25th Massachusetts is once again aboard the revitalized City of New York.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-february_7.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: January 25 to February 1, 1862 Routine duty is about to end for the 7th Illinois, as they prepare to move. Where, they know not.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_77.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 1, 1862 (Jones and Sec. Benjamin can’t believe the rumor that New Orleans has fallen.)

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

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Major Thomas G. Rhett, February 1, 1862 (Generals Jackson and Johnston ask the War Secretary to countermand his recent order that almost caused Jackson to resign.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-major.html

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Continued from January 31 (reply #37).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4032473/posts#37

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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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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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: February 2, 1862 (Hayes’ team appears to have abetted the escape of a western Virginia slave.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_4.html

Major Wilder Dwight: February 2, 1862 (Maj. Dwight has been thinking about his old dog back home.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-wilder-dwight-february-2-1862.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: February 2, 1862 (Baked beans and coffee for breakfast, boiled beef for dinner.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-february_55.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday Morning, February 2, 1862 (“Where we will go, we cannot tell; only that our faces are being turned southward.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_5.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 2, 1862 (“The rumor of yesterday originated in the assertion of a Yankee paper that New Orleans would be taken without firing a gun.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_10.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #5
John G. Nicolay, #6
George B. McClellan, #7
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #8
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #9

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

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Continued from January 30 (reply #30).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4032473/posts#30

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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General Joseph E. Johnston to Major-General Thomas J. Jackson, February 3, 1862 (Gen. Johnston wants to stop Gen. Jackson from resigning.)

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

Brigadier General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, February 3, 1862 (Gen. Sherman feeling a little vindicated about his earlier manpower requirement statements that people called outlandish.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/08/brigadier-general-william-t-sherman-to_4.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, February 3, 1862 (Oyster, eggs and ale at Gallipolis.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_44.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: February 3, 1862 (“I am pretty sure that we will start on a scout to-morrow that will give us a ride of 150 miles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: February 3, 1862 (“Everything now seems to be nearly ready, and I expect that some fine morning we will make a call on our southern friends.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-february_68.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday Morning, February 3, 1862 (“The fourth dawns beautifully, finding us moving up the Tennessee river. Rumor has it that Fort Henry is our destination.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_51.html

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to John L. Motley, February 3, 1862 (Holmes describes a conversation he had with a southern abolitionist.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/dr-oliver-wendell-holmes-to-john-l.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 3, 1862 (“We have intelligence of the sailing of an expedition from Cairo for the reduction of Fort Henry on the Tennessee River.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_35.html

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Today’s posts:

George B. McClellan, reply #11
Lincoln to McClellan, #12
“Grant,” #13
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Continued from February 3 (reply #13).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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

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

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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, February 4, 1862 (Home on leave.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_5.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 4, 1862 (“Burnside has entered the Sound at Hatteras with his fleet of gun-boats and transports.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_36.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #16
Abraham Lincoln, #17
George Templeton Strong, #18
Links to 2 items at Civil War Notebook, #19