Harper’s Weekly – March 22, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | March 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/4046843/posts

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Lieutenant Worden, U.S.N. – 1-2
Lander – 1
The Progress of Events – 2
Abolition in High Places – 2
The Late President Felton – 2
The Lounger – 3-4
The Naval Combat in the Chesapeake – 3, 7-8, 10-12
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Rebel Batteries on the Potomac – 6, 16
The Good Old Flag – 7
Captain Harry’s Valentine – 8-10
Fort Donelson – 10, 17
Brunswick and Fernandina – 11, 13
The Hand-Writing on the Walls at Richmond; or, The Dream of the Rebel Bill-Poster, Jeff Davis – 11
A Dreadful Ghost – 13-14
Mother, Can I Go? – 14
In a Water Street Dance-House – 14-16
Wilkie Collins, Esq. – 17-18
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. III-IV – 19-22

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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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Major General Ulysses S. Grant to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, March 22, 1862 (Gen. Grant updates his patron.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/10/brigadier-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_14.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, March 22, 1862 Virginians who remain peaceably at home will not be molested by troops under Hayes.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, March 22, 1862 (Hayes writes to his wife, his mother and his son.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, March 22, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_22.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Webb Hayes, March 22, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_30.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, March 22, 1862 (“The fires are burning brightly in our camp this morning.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_72.html

Rebecca Buffum Spring to Mary Ann Day Brown, March 23, 1862 (A New Jersey Quaker has a gift for John Brown’s widow)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/rebecca-buffum-spring-to-mary-ann-day.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 22, 1862 (“Capt. Godwin, the Provost Marshal, was swearing furiously this morning at the policemen about their iniquitous forgeries.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-22.html

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The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War, Chief Editor, Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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

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Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 23, 1862 (Jones prevents the arrest of a Richmond editor.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-23.html

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Today’s posts:

West Point Atlas map of Kernstown and “Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #5
John G. Nicolay, #6
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #7
George Templeton Strong, #8
Link to John Beauchamp Jones diary entry at Civil War Notebook, #9

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Continued from March 13 (reply #41).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044739/posts#41

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Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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

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Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Senator James W. Grimes, March 24, 1862 (Gov. Kirkwood wants more Iowa brigadiers.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-senator.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, Monday Morning, March 24, 1862 (Capt. Drake caught some bushwhackers.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, March 24, 1862 (“We all feel pleased to be in Fremont’s division.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Major Wilder Dwight: Monday, March 24, 1862 (After the Battle of Kernstown.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-wilder-dwight-monday-march-24-1862.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, March 24, 1862 (“I say McClellan has done a glorious thing, and shame on his detractors!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_8.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: March 24, 1862 (Guerilla fighting in Missouri.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_20.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, March 24, 1862 (“Yesterday important considerations, in my opinion, rendered it necessary to attack the enemy near Winchester.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_7.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 24, 1862 (“Gen. Walker, of Georgia — the same who had the scene with Col. Bledsoe—has resigned.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-24.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: March 24, 1862 (“Our people continue to make every effort to repel the foe, who, like the locusts of Egypt, overrun our land, carrying the bitterest enmity and desolation wherever they go.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-march-24-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lee,” reply #11
Lincoln letter to Horace Greeley, #12
Mary Chesnut, #13
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Continued from March 6 (reply #24).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4042616/posts#24

David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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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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Major Wilder Dwight: Monday, March 25, 1862 (Dwight analyzes the Battle of Kernstown.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-wilder-dwight-monday-march-25-1862.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 25, 1862 (The contrabands seem to think they can enjoy their freedom now that they have it.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-march-25.html

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, March 25, 1862 (Curtis asked to write a Civil War history for Harper Bros.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/george-william-curtis-to-charles-eliot_21.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 25, 1862 (Joseph Johnston could be in trouble for speaking disparagingly of Sec. Benjamin.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-25.html

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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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Brigadier General Joseph Hooker’s “Fugitive Slave” Order

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/06/brigadier-general-joseph-hookers.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: March 26, 1862 (Border state duty can be a grubby, thankless business.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 26, 1862 (“The apothecaries arrested and imprisoned some days ago have been tried and acquitted by a court-martial.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-26.html