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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/4034410/posts

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Skating on the Park – 1
The Union Victory at Somerset, Kentucky – 1-2, 10-11
Scenes at Fort Pickens – 3, 8
The Union Victory in Kentucky – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Little Mac’s Union Squeeze – 5
Hon. Edwin M. Stanton – 6
General Zollicoffer – 6
View of Ship Island, Louisiana – 7
Map of Kentucky, with a Portion of Tennessee, Showing the Railroads, Rivers, Mountains, Etc. – 9
God’s Soldier – 12
Poulailler the Robber – 12-14
Lily – 14-15
Winter-Quarters of the Fourteenth Massachusetts Volunteers-Garrison of Forts Albany and Runyon – 15
Cavalry Charge in Virginia -16
The “Cold Snap” in 1862-Ice in the East River – 17
A Strange Story, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. LXXIV – 18-20
The Sick Woman of Mexico – 20

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Two excerpts for today. Both continued from February 7 (reply #37).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4034410/posts#37

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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

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Brigadier-General Don Carlos Buell to Major-General George B. McClellan, February 8, 1862—9 a.m. (“I am concentrating and preparing, but will not decide definitely yet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/brigadier-general-don-carlos-buell-to_14.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: February 8, 1862 (Battle of Roanoke Island.)

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

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, February 8, 1862 (Still in Fort Henry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_48.html

Letter from G. W. B., February 8, 1862 (“From Fort Henry,” The Daily Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, Missouri)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/letter-from-g-w-b-february-8-1862.html

General Albert Sidney Johnston to Judah P. Benjamin, February 8, 1862 (Johnston gives the War Dept. the bad news.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/general-albert-sidney-johnston-to-judah.html

Judah P. Benjamin to General Albert Sidney Johnston, February 8, 1862 (The Secretary is sending reinforcements to Gen. Johnston)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/judah-p-benjamin-to-general-albert.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: February 8, 1862 (McGuire got a lead on a room that may pan out. Her fears about Roanoke Island are well-founded.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-february-8.html

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Continued from Continued from February 7 (reply #38).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4034410/posts#38

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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Senator James W. Grimes to Commodore Samuel F. Du Pont, February 9, 1862 (“We are much more hopeful than we have been, and I fancy that I can see the end to the rebellion.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/senator-james-w-grimes-to-commodore_16.html

Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant to Mary Grant, February 9, 1862 (“I intend to keep the ball moving as lively as possible”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/brigadier-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_20.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 9, 1862 (“Is not the news from Tennessee glorious? it enables us to get in the rear of both Columbus and Bowling Green, compelling their evacuation”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_19.html

Major Wilder Dwight: February 9, 1862 (“Our life jogs on here without variety. For the most part, we spend our time in reading military books and talking military talk.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-wilder-dwight-february-9-1862.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: February 9, 1862 (On the partisan violence in Missouri.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_11.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: February 9, 1862 (After the Roanoke Island battle.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-february_23.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, February 9, 1862 (“About twenty thousand troops throng the woods. General Grant is evidently preparing for some great work.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_5.html

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, February 9, 1862 (“. . . Jane and I went to hear Frederic Douglass. . . . We could not but come away disappointed and even disheartened.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william.html

Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, February 9, 1862 (From Fort Henry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/special-dispatch-to-chicago-tribune.html

Special Dispatch to the Republican, February 9, 1862 (From Fort Henry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/special-dispatch-to-republican-february.html

Special Dispatch to the Republican, February 9, 1862 (From Fort Henry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/special-dispatch-to-republican-february_21.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: Sunday Night, February 9, 1862 (“Painful rumours have been afloat all day. Fort Henry, on Tennessee River, has been attacked.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-sunday-night.html

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Continued from February 7 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4034410/posts#39

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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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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Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Senator James W. Grimes, February 10, 1862 (Gov. Kirkwood wants more Brigadier Generals appointed from Iowa.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-senator.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: February 10, 1862 (The Roanoke Island prisoners.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-february_31.html

Details of the Bombardment and Capture of Fort Henry. Incidents, &c., February 10, 1862 (In-depth story about Ft. Henry from Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/details-of-bombardment-and-capture-of.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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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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Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 11, 1862 (“Nothing has transpired in reference to Stone’s arrest. I must believe he is the victim of political malice, and that he will be vindicated from the charge of treachery and collusion with the enemy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_20.html

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Lorenzo Thomas, February 11, 1862 (“Inclosed herewith I have the honor to forward to the Commander-in-Chief official copies of the reports of Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant and Flag-Officer A. H. Foote in regard to the capture of Fort Henry.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to_26.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday and Tuesday, February 10 & 11, 1862 (“It is rumored that General Grant designs moving upon the rebels in their stronghold at Fort Donelson.”)

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

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, February 8, 1862 (Gen. Lee is working on the defenses of Savannah and Ft. Pulaski.)

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

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: Richmond, Virginia, Monday Night, February 11, 1862 (“the enemy have turned their attention to Fort Donelson, on Cumberland River, which, if taken, would give them free access into the heart of Tennessee.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/01/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-richmond_4.html

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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 January 14 (reply #28).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4028482/posts#28

David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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