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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/4042616/posts

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Our Victory – 1
The Rebel Inaugural Address – 1
Our Generals – 1, 3
Major-General Grant – 2, 9
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Capture of Fort Donelson – 6, 8
Seeking for the Wounded, by Torch-Light, After the Battle – 7
The Execution of Gordon, the Slave-Trader – 8, 20
The Battle of Mill Spring – 9
Brigadier-General Garfield – 10, 19
Washington’s Birthday at Washington – 10, 18
Map of the Seat of War in Tennessee and Kentucky, Showing the Present Position of the Union Armies under Generals Buell and Grant – 11
Nashville – 12-14
What Befell Me at the Assizes – 15-16
Taking Things Colly – 16-17
On the Shores of Tennessee – 17
General Curtis – 19
English Patriotism – 21
A South Side Colloquy – 21
A Strange Story, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, concluded, Ch. LXXXVII-LXXXIX – 21-22
The Correspondence of Generals Grant and Buckner, at Fort Donelson, Illustrated – 23

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Two excerpts from Bruce Catton today. The first is continued from February 26 (reply #32). The second isn’t a continuation.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4040443/posts#32

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from February 22 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4040443/posts#3

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from March 6 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4042616/posts#27

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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PRESIDENT’S GENERAL WAR ORDER, No. 2

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/06/presidents-general-war-order-no-2.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, March 8, 1862 (“With all its evils war has its glorious compensations.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_22.html

Major Wilder Dwight: Saturday, March 8, 1862 (A Union cavalry patrol involved in a friendly fire incident.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-wilder-dwight-saturday-march-8.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, March 8, 1862 (“This morning we are on the Ohio, and it is not long until we join the fleet that came before us from the Cumberland. Presently we make a turn and pass into the waters of the Tennessee river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_76.html

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, March 8, 1862 (“[Lincoln’s message on Emancipation is a most important step; but could anything be more feebly put, or more inefficiently written?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william_14.html

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to John L. Motley, March 8, 1862 (“The last new thing is the President’s message, looking to gradual compensated emancipation. I don’t know how it will be received here, but the effect will be good abroad.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/dr-oliver-wendell-holmes-sr-to-john-l.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 8, 1862 (“Gen. Winder has appointed Capt. Godwin Provost Marshal.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-8.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: March 8, 1862 (McGuire meets another refugee family recently arrived in Richmond.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-march-8-1862.html

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Continued from February 20 (reply #54).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4038469/posts?q=1&;page=51#54

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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

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Major General George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, March 9, 1862 (General Order #2 calling for reorganization of the Army can’t be done. Please suspend it.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-general-george-b-mcclellan-to.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Major General George B. McClellan, March 9, 1862 (No.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/edwin-m-stanton-to-major-general-george.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 9, 1862 (“I should not be surprised to see the same people who the other day called McClellan a demi-god, to-morrow applauding his removal.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_27.html

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, March 9, 1862 (Sedgwick at Charlestown, VA, about to join the 3rd Connecticut Infantry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/brigadier-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_28.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: Sunday P.M., March 9, 1862 (It is rumored that Hayes may be promoted to the colonelcy of a regiment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_24.html

Major Wilder Dwight: March 9, 1862 (On the promise of freedom to “contrabands”: “The leaven is working; there is no stopping it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-wilder-dwight-march-9-1862.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 9, 1862 (“the talk now is that Newbern is the next point of attack.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-march-9.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 9, 1862 (“Gen. Winder has appointed Col. Porter Provost Marshal, — Godwin not being high enough in rank, I suppose.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-9.html

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Continued from March 4 (reply #14).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4042616/posts#14

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

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

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Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, March 10, 1862 (Report on the situation in Florida.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/01/gustavus-v-fox-to-flag-officer-samuel-f_30.html

Colonel Grenville M. Dodge to Samuel J. Kirkwood, Governor of Iowa, March 10, 1862 (Report on Battle of Pea Ridge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/08/colonel-grenville-m-dodge-to-samuel-j.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, March 10, 1862 (“Captain Moore (R. B.), of Willoughby, has resigned. I yesterday invited him to quarter with me, his company (I) having gone to Raleigh.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-rutherford-b-hayes-monday.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, March 10, 1862 (“My darling, you made a timely retreat from here, for on Friday the Yankees came within five miles of this place. Ashby skirmished for some time with them”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, March 10, 1862 (“I received a long, long letter from Sam Elliott.” I had no idea he was that old.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 10, 1862 (“One of the friends of the Secretary of War came to me to-day, and proposed to have some new passports printed, with the likeness of Mr. Benjamin engraved on them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary.html

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Continued from February 24 (reply #19).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4040443/posts#19

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

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

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PRESIDENT’S WAR ORDER, No. 3

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/06/presidents-war-order-no-3.html

Diary of John Hay: After March 11, 1862 (Hay writes of recent important events.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-john-hay-after-march-11-1862.html

Diary of Edward Bates, Tuesday March 11, 1862 (A.G. Bates is not impressed by War. Sec. Stanton.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/diary-of-edward-bates-tuesday-march-11.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 11, 1862 (Meade’s division has heard about the Merrimac’s attack, but apparently not the rescue by the Monitor.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_28.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, March 11, 1862 (Hayes has war news from Manassas and Pea Ridge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-rutherford-b-hayes-tuesday.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 11, 1862 (The City of New York anchors at Hatteras Inlet, after running aground in Pamlico Sound.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-march-11.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 11, 1862 (“I have summed up the amounts of patriotic contributions received by the army in Virginia, and registered on my book, and they amount to $1,515,898.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-11.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: March 11, 1862 (Like Gen. Meade, McGuire has heard about the Merrimac’s attack but not the arrival of the Monitor.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-march-11-1862.html

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