Harper’s Weekly – February 8, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 8, 1862

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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 Ulysses S. Grant to Julia Dent Grant, February 14, 1862 (“The taking of Fort Donelson bids fair to be a long job. The rebels are strongly fortified and are in a very heavy force. When this is to end is hard to surmise but I feel confident of ultimate success.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/brigadier-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_19.html

Flag-Officer Andrew H. Foote to Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant, February 14, 1862 (“Will you do me the favor to come on board at your earliest convenience? As I am disabled from walking, from a contusion, I cannot possibly get to see you about the disposition of these vessels, all of which are more or less disabled.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/flag-officer-andrew-h-foote-to-major.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Friday Morning, February 14, 1862 (Hayes is returning to duty from leave at home.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_13.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: February 14, 1862 (“Here there are no forces to fight but a few hundred bushwhackers that will lie by the roadside in the swamp, and I believe they would murder Jesus Christ if they thought he was a Union man.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_12.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Friday, February 14, 1862 (“the soldiers are still suffering. Their blankets are frozen, their clothes are wet. They stand everywhere shivering around the camp fires.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_38.html

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Today’s posts:

Henry/Donelson map and “Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #36
“Grant,” #37
Grant’s memoirs, #38
Nathan Bedford Forrest, #39
George B. McClellan, #40
John G. Nicolay, #41
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #42
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #43