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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/4044739/posts

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Memphis, Tennessee – 1, 12
The Mississippi – 1
The British and Their Press – 1-2
The Port Royal Fact – 2
The Fight at Fort Donelson – 2-3, 6, 9
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Bowling Green, Kentucky – 7, 9
The Late General Lander – 8
Captain Mendill – 8-9
In the Savannah River – 9-10, 13
A Submarine Torpedo – 10
The Inauguration at Richmond – 10
General Map of Virginia, Showing the Field of Operations of the Army of the Potomac – 11
The Major’s Mittens – 14-15
Two Nights in the Catacombs – 15-16
The Burnside Expedition – 16, 18
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. I-II – 19-22

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Continued from March 10 (reply #20.)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044739/posts#20

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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Henry J. Raymond to Abraham Lincoln, March 15, 1862 (NY Times editor supports Lincoln’s compensated emancipation plan.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/henry-j-raymond-to-abraham-lincoln.html

Senator James W. Grimes to Captain Samuel F. Du Pont, March 15, 1862 (Thanks for the rifle. F.O. Foote plans to attack at New-Madrid today.)

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

Diary of Major General Ethan Allen Hitchcock, March 15, 1862 (Sec. Stanton wants Hitchcock to serve in a high-ranking position in the army.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/diary-of-major-general-ethan-allen.html

Major-General Don Carlos Buell to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, March 15, 1862 (Buell will support the attack at Island No 10/New-Madrid, but wants to march there instead of going by river boat.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/major-general-don-carlos-buell-to-major.html

Major Wilder Dwight: March 15, 1862 (The 2nd Massachusetts has finally reached Winchester – 2 items.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-wilder-dwight-march-15-1862.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, March 15, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_14.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 15, 1862 (After the battle at Newbern.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-march-15.html

General Joseph E. Johnston to Brigadier General William H. C. Whiting, March 15, 1862 – 10:40 a.m. (Johnston describes his defensive plan behind the Rappahannock.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/general-joseph-e-johnston-to-brigadier.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: Saturday Night, March 15, 1862 (“Spent to-day at the hospital. Heard of the shelling of Newbern, N. C., and of its fall. My heart sickens at every acquisition of the Federals.”)

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

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: March 15, 1862 (“Our army has fallen back to the Rappahannock, thus giving up the splendid Valley and Piedmont country to the enemy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-march-15-1862.html

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The language was very flamboyant back then wasn’t it. I wonder what they would have thought of Biden and Harris mumbling like two imbeciles when giving a speech

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Continued from March 14 (reply #47).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044739/posts#47

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

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Continued from March 13 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044739/posts#39

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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

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Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, March 16, 1862 (F.O. Foote wants the gunboat Carondelet sent up the Tennessee River.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_2.html

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, March 16, 1862 (“my instructions not to advance so as to bring on an engagement must be strictly obeyed”)

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

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, March16, 1862 (Gen. Sedgwick at Harper’s Ferry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/brigadier-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_29.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, March 16, 1862 (“Since the rumored abandonment of Manassas, we have been notified to be in constant read[i]ness to move.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday Morning, March 16, 1862 (The 23rd Ohio may be attacked or may go on the move. Who knows?)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_28.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 16, 1862 (“It would seem that this people have sometime been a God-fearing people, but since Jeff. Davis inaugurated a new regime, every man has done that which seemed good in his own sight. Hence we are here on this little excursion.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-march-16.html

John L. Motley to Anna Lothrop Motley, March 16, 1862 (“Slavery has trampled upon the Constitution, aimed its murderous blows against the very heart of our nation, turned a prosperous and happy land into a hell”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/john-l-motley-to-anna-lothrop-motley.html

John L. Motley to Mary Lothrop Motley, March 16, 1862 (Motley to his daughter on life in Vienna.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/john-l-motley-to-mary-lothrop-motley.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 16, 1862 (“I omitted to note in its place the gallant feat of Commodore Buchanan with the iron monster Merrimac in Hampton Roads.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-16.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #9
Grant,” #10
George Templeton Strong, #11
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #12

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Continued from March 13 (reply #40).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044739/posts#40

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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

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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 Charles F. Smith, March 17, 1862 (Smith defends Gen. Grant.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/major-general-charles-f-smith-march-17.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 17, 1862 (Miserable conditions at Alexandria.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday Morning, March 17, 1862 (An old soldier in VA won’t go against his home country. As his country is going with the Union, then so will he.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 17, 1862 (Casualty report for Battle of Newbern.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-march-17.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, March 17, 1862 (The withdrawal from Winchester.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_6.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 17, 1862 (“Col. Porter has resigned his provost marshalship, and is again succeeded by Capt. Godwin, a Virginian, and I like him very well, for he is truly Southern in his instincts.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-17.html

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

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Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Don Carlos Buell, March 18, 1862 (“Move your forces by land to the Tennessee as rapidly as possible.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to-major_6.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 18, 1862 (An insider’s view of Gen. McClellan.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_2.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1862 (The story retold of a Union man prisoner of the rebels who made a daring and violent escape.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_13.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: March 18, 1862 (Fighting at New Madrid described. An earthquake along the fault line is remembered.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/near-point-pleasant-mo.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, March 18, 1862 (The 7th Illinois on a steamer at Pittsburg Landing, along with about 100 other steamers.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 18, 1862 (“A Mr. MacCubbin, of Maryland, has been appointed by Gen. Winder the Chief of Police. He is wholly illiterate, like the rest of the policemen under his command.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-18.html

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

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