Harper’s Weekly – April 5, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | April 5, 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/4050568/posts

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Capture of Beaufort and the Escape of the Rebel Steam-Ship “Nashville” – 1-2
The British Government on the Blockade – 1
What to Do with the Negroes – 1, 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Old Mother Greeley on the Rampage after General McClellan – 5
The Fight at Island No. 10 – 6-7, 14
Birds-Eye View of the Course of the Mississippi, and the Seat of War in Tennessee and the Vicinity – 8
Rebel Prisoners at Chicago – 9-10, 19
The Battle of Newbern – 11, 13-14
Adventures of a Teacher in Dixie – 12-13
The Iron-Clad Steamer “Galena” – 13, 15
Hon. Andrew Johnson, Governor of Tennessee – 16
Lieutenant Morris, of the “Cumberland” – 16
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. VII-VIII – 16-19
The Hand Closing – 20

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Continued from March 7 (reply #31).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4042616/posts#31

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from April 4 (reply #38).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4050568/posts#38

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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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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Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan

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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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Report of Mr. Tucker, Assistant Secretary of War, to Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, Relative to the McClellan Expedition

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/report-of-mr-tucker-assistant-secretary.html

Major General George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, April 5, 1862 – 7:30 p.m. (McClellan asks to retain McDowell’s corps.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-general-george-b-mcclellan-to_730.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, April 5, 1862 (“I have scarcely the faintest idea of an attack (general one) being made upon us, but will be prepared should such a thing take place.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/09/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_28.html

Brigadier-General William T. Sherman to Captain John A. Rawlins, April 5, 1862 (Lots of enemy activity around Camp Shiloh, considering no attack is expected.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/brigadier-general-william-t-sherman-to.html

Diary of Colonel Jacob Ammen, April 5, 1862 (“Marched 9½ miles over bad roads, and reached Savannah, Tenn., before 12 m.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/diary-of-colonel-jacob-ammen-april-5.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, April 5, 1862 (Activity at Camp Hayes.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_14.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: April 5, 1862 (“One of our boys has just returned from Madrid and says he saw our gunboat Cairo there. She slipped by the batteries at Island No. 10 in the storm last night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_25.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, April 5, 1862 (“Vague rumors are afloat this evening to the effect that Albert Sidney Johnson is moving towards the Tennessee with his entire command”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_20.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 5, 1862 (“Newbern, N. C, has fallen into the hands of the enemy!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-5.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Mrs. Eliza Walter Smith: undated probably written between March 31 & April 6, 1862 (“I am as safe here [Pittsburg Landing] as I should be in New York or in Cincinnati; the same kind Providence is over me.”)

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

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #3
“Grant,” #4
John Jackman, #5
Johnny Green, #6
John G. Nicolay, #7
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

[Theophilus]

I hope to take my kids to see Shiloh this week. I’m going to show them this story.

[Iceclimber58]

I enjoy your posts on the War of Northern Aggression.

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Continued from March 24 (reply #11).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4048710/posts#11

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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Abraham Lincoln to Major General George B. McClellan, April 6, 1862 – 8 p.m. (“I think you better break the enemy’s line from Yorktown to Warwick River at once.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/abraham-lincoln-to-major-general-george.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 6, 1862 (Meade says McClellan still has 100,000 men. Enough to get the job done.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_7.html

E. P. Halstead to Lieut. Col. John D. Shaul, April 6, 1862 (“I am directed by General Doubleday to that all negroes coming into the lines under his command are to be treated as persons and not as chattels.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/06/e-p-halstead-to-lieut-col-john-d-shaul.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, April 6, 1862 (“Received orders to be ready to move by Wednesday night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_15.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, April 6, 1862 (“We are to move southward this week. You will not hear from me so often as heretofore.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_16.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, April 6, 1862 (“The pleasantest thing in this part of our work is that, in this region, the best people are on our side. We are not in an enemy’s country.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_20.html

Major Wilder Dwight: April 6, 1862 (Skirmishing in the Shenandoah Valley.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/major-wilder-dwight-april-6-1862.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 7, 1862 (“R. G. H. Kean, a young man, and a connection of Mr. Randolph, has been appointed Chief of the Bureau of War”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-7.html

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

Continued from April 5 (reply #3).

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

Continued from April 5 (reply #4).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

Today’s excerpts from this book are from the prologue .

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

Company Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show: A Memoir of the Civil War, by Sam R. Watkins

[DoodleDawg]

The evening of April 5th.

"Well, Grant we’ve had the devil’s own day, haven’t we?" said Sherman.

"Yes," replied Grant, "lick ’em tomorrow, though."

And he did.

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

Continued from reply #15.

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Jean Edward Smith, Grant

Continued from April 4 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4050568/posts#39

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

Stacy D. Allen, If He Had Less Rank: Lewis Wallace, from Grant’s Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg, edited by Steven E. Woodworth

Continued from reply #15.

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

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

Continued from reply #15.

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

Continued from reply #17.

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

Continued from reply #17.

Stacy D. Allen, If He Had Less Rank: Lewis Wallace, from Grant’s Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg, edited by Steven E. Woodworth

Continued from reply #17.

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

Continued from February 25 (reply #28)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4040443/posts#28

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

[colorado tanker]

My wife and I visited Shiloh battlefield on a day when we mostly had it to ourselves. It’s a haunting place; almost as if you can feel the ghosts inhabiting it. I couldn’t help but feel, this is when both sides understood this is going to be very, very real and very, very bloody.

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

Continued from reply #18.

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

Continued from reply #18.

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

Continued from reply #17.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

Continued from reply #18.

Stacy D. Allen, If He Had Less Rank: Lewis Wallace, from Grant’s Lieutenants: From Cairo to Vicksburg, edited by Steven E. Woodworth

Continued from reply #18.

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

Company Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show: A Memoir of the Civil War, by Sam R. Watkins