Harper’s Weekly – March 29, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | March 29, 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/4048710/posts

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Progress of Victory – 1
McClellan’s Address to His Army – 1, 3
A Thrilling Scene in Tennessee – 2, 12
The Key to Russell – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Bull Run Russell in His True Part at Last – 5
The Battle of Pea Ridge – 6, 12
Columbus, Kentucky – 7, 12
Torpedoes at Columbus – 8, 12
Map of the Southern States – 9, 13
The Advance of the Grand Army into Virginia – 10, 12-13, 15
The Tennessee Blacksmith – 11-12
Fort Clinch, Florida – 12
Captain Ericsson – 13-14
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. V-VI – 16-19

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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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Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, March 29, 1862 (“The Tenth Brigade, infantry and artillery and train crossed Duck River this cold and disagreeable day without incident.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/diary-of-colonel-jacob-ammen-march-29.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, March 29, 1862 (Dr. Webb will resign before submitting to an examination.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_5.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 30, 1862 (“Gen. Lee is to have command of all the armies — but will not be in the field himself.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-30.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: March 29, 1862 (“Poor, noble Winchester, to what degradation is she brought!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-march-29-1862.html

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Pea Ridge is one scenarios in Victory Games Across 5 Aprils (Which I own).

A photo of a game from Boardgamegeek:

Caption: "Pea Ridge Scenario. The last turn (15th). (The Movement & Combat phase markers are homemade) – Uploaded by BertGK"

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

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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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Forgot to ping the list to John Jackman at reply #7

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Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, March 30, 1862 (Sedgwick’s division is at Hampton, VA.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/brigadier-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_30.html

Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, March 30, 1862 (“March about 4 miles; pass General Pillow’s plantation and encamp on Captain Polk’s plantation.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/diary-of-colonel-jacob-ammen-march-30.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Sunday Night, March 30, 1862 (“The service performed the last ten days, breaking up bushwhackers and Governor Letcher’s militia musters, is prodigious.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_7.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 30, 1862 (Same entry posted in error yesterday.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-30.html

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

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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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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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John Hay to John G. Nicolay, March 31, 1862 (“Little Mac sails to-day for down river. He was in last night to see Tycoon.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/john-hay-to-john-g-nicolay-march-31-1862.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 31, 1862 (“The rumor now is that we are to get off on day after to-morrow, the whole of the First Corps (forty-five thousand men) together”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_4.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, March 31, 1862 (“The enemy are in force at Corinth, some seventeen miles distant.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_11.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, March 31, 1862 (Capt. Lusk thinks Gen. T.W. Sherman is getting a bad rap.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_18.html

Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, March 31, 1862 (“General Nelson directs me to conduct the march so as to reach Savannah, Tenn., Monday, April 7, as we are not wanted there before that time.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/diary-of-colonel-jacob-ammen-march-31.html

Major Wilder Dwight: March 31, 1862 (“It will soon be a year that we have been in service, with nothing to show for it but the effects of the hardest possible work.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/major-wilder-dwight-march-31-1862.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Mrs. Eliza Walter Smith: undated probably written between March 31 & April 6 1862 (“yesterday the division under General Sherman, of which our brigade forms a part, made a very extended reconnoissance, driving in the enemy’s pickets”)

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

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letter to McClellan, reply #10
John Jackman, #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #13

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Continued from March 23 (reply #5).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4048710/posts#5

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from March 9 (reply #12).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044739/posts#12

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from March 17 (reply #15).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4046843/posts#15

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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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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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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