Harper’s Weekly – February 22, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 22, 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/4038469/posts

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The Capture of Fort Henry – 1-3, 10, 12
The Diplomatic Corps at Washington – 3, 6-7
The National Bridge, Mexico – 3, 16
Slow and Sure – 3-4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 5
Domestic Intelligence – 5-6
Foreign News – 6
Our Prisoners at Richmond – 8, 10-11
A Strange Story, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. LXXVII-LXXX – 9-10
The Army of the Potomac in the Mud – 11-12
Amy Scudder – 14
Patty – 14-16
Freshet at Cincinnati – 16, 18
Skating Carnival in Brooklyn, February 10, 1862 – 19
Trapped – 20-21
The Grand Reception – 22

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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Continued from November 18, 1861 (reply #8).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4013111/posts#8

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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

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Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, February 22, 1862 (Hayes waiting for the next steamer to Virginia.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_16.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday Morning, February 22, 1862 The 7th Illinois lands at Clarksville, TN, where there is much tobacco.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_96.html

Jefferson Davis’ 2nd Inaugural Address (as President of the Permanent Government of the Confederate States of America), February 22, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/01/jefferson-davis-2nd-inaugural-address.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 22, 1862 (Jones at the inaugural.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_19.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: Richmond, Virginia, Saturday, February 22, 1862 (McGuire is in Richmond and wanted to attend the inaugural, but the weather kept her away.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/01/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-richmond_15.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #3
George B. McClellan, #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
George Templeton Strong, #6
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #7
Mary B. Chesnut, #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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Continued from February 18 (reply #39)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4038469/posts#39

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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

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Brigadier General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, February 23, 1862 (“Don’t get to war with McClellan. You mistake him if you underrate him.”)

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

Commodore Samuel F. Du Pont to Senator James W. Grimes, February 23, 1862 (“in some three weeks I hope to hold everything by an inside or outside blockade from Cape Canaveral to Georgetown, South Carolina.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/commodore-samuel-f-du-pont-to-senator_17.html

General Robert E. Lee to [Mary Custis Lee?], February 23, 1862 (“The news from Tennessee and North Carolina is not at all cheering. Disasters seem to be thickening around us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/general-robert-e-lee-to-mary-custis-lee_12.html

General Robert E. Lee to Col. G. W. Custis Lee, February 23, 1862 (On horses, Confederate supineness, and the defense of Savannah.)

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

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 23, 1862 (Confirmation of the fall of Donelson. Did President Davis and Sec. Benjamin know about it yesterday?)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_24.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: February 23, 1862 (McGuire describes Davis’ Inaugural speech and the reception afterwards. She must have attended despite the bad weather.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-wednesday.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 23, 1862 (Meade missed the Washington day celebrations because he had to stay in camp. He is not sold on Sec. Stanton.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_22.html

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Today’s posts:

George B. McClellan, reply #11
Nathan Bedford Forrest, #12
Mary Chesnut, #13
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Continued from February 20 (reply #53.)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4038469/posts?q=1&;page=51#53

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from Continued from February 18 (reply #38).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4038469/posts#38

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from February 21 (reply #64).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4038469/posts?q=1&;page=51#64

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Continued from February 6 (reply #30).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4034410/posts#30

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

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The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence 1860-1865, edited by Stephen W. Spears