Harper’s Weekly – February 15, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 15, 1862

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Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, Thursday, February 20, 1862 (Lincoln family friend records the death of Willie.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/diary-of-horatio-nelson-taft-thursday.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Thursday, February 20, 1862 (The 7th Illinois gets a new C.O.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_45.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 8-20, 1862 (Jones catches up his diary after an eventful week.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_16.html

Jefferson Davis’ Proclamation Of A Day Of Fasting And Prayer

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/04/jefferson-davis-proclamation-of-day-of.html

A Letter From The Secretary Of War (From Sec. Stanton to the N.Y. Tribune.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/05/letter-from-secretary-of-war.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #53
“Lincoln,” #54
John G. Nicolay, #55
“Terrible Swift Sword,” #56
George B. McClellan, #57
George Templeton Strong, #58
Mary Chesnut, #59
Johnny Green, #60
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #61

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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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Continued from February 19 (reply #48).

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

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

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Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Ellen Ewing Sherman, February 21, 1862 (Sherman at Paducah. He talked to Buckner.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/09/brigadier-general-william-t-sherman-to_28.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, February 21, 1862 (Smith and his regiment arrived at Paducah. He met with Gen. Sherman.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_3.html

Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, February 21, 1862 (Grant thanks Washburne for giving him the opportunity he is now taking advantage of.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/10/brigadier-general-ulysses-s-grant-to.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Friday, February 21, 1862 (The 7th Illinois has left Ft. Donelson and is steaming up the Tennessee River.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_18.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 21, 1862 (“No news from Donelson — and that is bad news.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_18.html

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Today’s posts:

John G. Nicolay reply #63
Grant’s memoirs,#64
George B. McClellan #65
Mary Chesnut, #66
Johnny Green, #67
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #68