Harper’s Weekly – March 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/4040443/posts

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Capture of Fort Donelson – 1-2
Our Army in Kentucky – 1, 20
The Beginning of the End – 1, 3
Abolition and Free Trade – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Expedition Against Savannah – 6, 10
The Capture of Fort Henry – 7, 10
The Burnside Expedition – 8-13
Care-Worn – 14-15
In Western Missouri – 15-16
Down Beyond the Saw-Mill – 16
The Union Expedition Up the Tennessee River – 17
Captain Porter – 17, 19
Union Southern Men Welcoming Our Gun-Boats in Alabama – 18
Camp of Fourth Kentucky Regiment, Near Somerset, Ky., Lately Occupied by Seventeenth Tennessee Regiment (Rebel) – 19
A Strange Story, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Ch. LXXXI-LXXXVI – 21-22
Illustrated Report of the Rebel Gen. Joe Johnson’s Appeal to His Troops – 23

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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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Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Julia Dent Grant, March 1, 1862 (Gen. Grant is well off financially. He considers Halleck and McClellan fine men to work for.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-julia.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 1, 1862 (“We are all in the dark as to where or in what direction we move.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_25.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: Saturday March 1, 1862 (“I reached here in good condition last night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, March 1, 1862 (The 7th Illinois leaves Nashville, heading back down the Cumberland towards the Ohio River.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_44.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 1, 1862 (“It is certain that the City of Nashville has been evacuated, and will, of course, be occupied by the enemy.’)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-1.html

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"Abolition and Free Trade – 3"

Quotable:

"The Government under which the Southern states have prospered so wonderfully during the past sixty years had been almost entirely supported by duties on imports levied at three Northern ports -- New York, Philadelphia and Boston. The South may be said never to have paid any taxes at all."

Interesting quote considering it was an article of faith among Southerners then and pro-Confeferates today that, they claim, "The South" somehow paid ALL the taxes and everybody else was getting a free ride at "The South's" expense.

This article reminds us that not everyone at the time shared such views.

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Continued February 6 (reply #31).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4034410/posts#31

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, March 2, 1862 (The 54th Ohio Volunteers will be marching south soon. Maybe to New Orleans or Texas.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_5.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, March 2, 1862 (The Union position at Beaufort SC is evidently secure enough for the men to receive civilian visitors.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_18.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, March 2, 1862 (The 2nd Mass. Volunteers skirmish near Charlestown, VA.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_30.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 2, 1862 (“Gen. Jos. E. Johnston has been keeping McClellan and his 210,000 men at bay for a long time with about 40,000.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-2.html

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Continued from February 27 (reply #40).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4040443/posts#40

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued March 2 (reply #6).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Major General George B. McClellan to Major General Henry W. Halleck, March 3, 1862 McClellan on the situations on the Potomac and out west and the idea of a higher army rank than Major General.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/major-general-george-b-mcclellan-to.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday March 3, 1862 (“Ride my new horse, a yellow sorrel of Norman stock; call him Webby”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_2.html

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, Monday Evening, March 3, 1862 (Norton reports on a conversation with Ralph Waldo Emerson.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william_8.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 3, 1862 (“But McClellan would not advance. He could not drag his artillery at this season of the year; and so he is embarking his army, or the greater portion of it, for the Peninsula.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-3.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: March 3, 1862 (“I believe that God, in his great mercy, will direct our Government and our army.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-march-3-1862.html

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3/4 reply #1: Continued from March 3 (reply #9).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from February 25 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4040443/posts#27

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Continued from February 17 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4038469/posts#27

James Harrison Wilson, The Life of General John A. Rawlins

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Continued March 3 (reply #10).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Franklin Pierce to Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1862 (Former President sends current President a note of sympathy.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/franklin-pierce-to-abraham-lincoln.html

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General George B. McClellan, March 4, 1862 (Halleck’s full dispatch to McClellan, referred to above.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to-major_7.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 4, 1862 (“there has been literally nothing done except the passage of the Potomac by General Banks’ column.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_26.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to his sister Helen, March 4, 1862 (Smith describes the virtues of his regiment.)

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

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday March 4, 1862 (“News on the wires that the Rebels have Murfreesboro; that Pope takes four or six guns from Jeff Thompson; that there is appearance of a move at Centreville and also of a move on Charleston, Virginia”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

Major Wilder Dwight: March 4, 1862 (The effect of northern invasion on southern currency.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-wilder-dwight-march-4-1862.html

John M. Forbes to Sarah Hathaway Forbes, March 4, 1862 (Forbes and Billy the horse on a steamer bound for somewhere. South Carolina, perhaps.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/john-m-forbes-to-sarah-hathaway-forbes.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 4, 1862 (“Our troops are to be marched through Richmond immediately, for the defense of Yorktown”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-4.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: March 4, 1862 (“The Nashville, a Confederate steamer, that has been watched by eight Federal war vessels, came into port the other day, at Beaufort, North Carolina, after many hairbreadth escapes, bringing a rich burden.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-march-4-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #12
Grant’s memoirs, #13
John Rawlins, #14
“Lee,” #15
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #16

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I’m pretty sure the item in reply #11 from John Beauchamp Jones is misdated. Probably a month early. The battle of Yorktown takes place April 5 to May 4.

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from March 4 (reply #12).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant