Harper’s Weekly – April 26, 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/4056175/posts

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About Mobs – 1, 3
Major-General Halleck in the Field, April 1862 – 2
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Advance upon Yorktown – 6-8
The Stevens Iron Steam Gun-Boat “Naugatuck,” Now at Fortress Monroe – 8, 14
The Victory at Island No. 10 – 8-9, 15-17
The Battle of Pittsburg Landing – 9, 11
Map of Western Tennessee – 9-10
“Wanted a Life-Boat” – 12-13
Lieut. Fitz James O’Brien – 13-14
Fredericksburg, Virginia – 15, 18
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. XI-XII – 15-17, 19-20
Commodore Foote’s Game of Ten Pins with Beauregard – 21

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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

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Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, April 26, 1862 (“If the enemy had sent us word when and where they would attack us, we could not have been better prepared.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/12/ulysses-s-grant-to-jesse-root-grant.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, April 26, 1862 The 23rd Ohio enjoys “fine afternoon and a happy time” near Raleigh, Virginia.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_27.html

Major Wilder Dwight, April 26, 1862 (“We didn’t think the Southern Confederacy had a year’s life in it a year ago.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/major-wilder-dwight-april-26-1862.html

Parker Pillsbury to Senator James W. Grimes, April 26, 1862 (Letter to the Senator from a prominent abolitionist.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/parker-pillsbury-to-senator-james-w.html

General Robert E. Lee. To Charlotte Wickham Lee, April 26, 1862 (Gen. Lee to his daughter.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/general-robert-e-lee-to-charlotte_18.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 26, 1862 (“Gen. Lee is doing good service in bringing forward reinforcements from the South against the day of trial — and an awful day awaits us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-26.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: April 26, 1862 (Morgan describes the scene in New Orleans as the city falls to Farragut’s fleet.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-sarah-morgan-april-26-1862.html

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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

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Edwin M. Stanton to Charles Ellet Jr., April 27, 1862 The War Sec. wants Col. Ellet to move the ram fleet from Pittsburgh, PA to Memphis.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/edwin-m-stanton-to-charles-ellet-jr.html

Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, April 27, 1862 (“The vile slanders that are daily promulgated in Washington against our best officers are enough to disgust all decent persons and take away all the zeal we have in the cause.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/brigadier-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_4.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Mrs. Eliza Walter Smith, April 27 1862 (“At the rate we are going on, this war will last twenty-five years, and will cost the North the lives of a million of men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-mrs-eliza_21.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, April 27, 1862 (“Six fugitives from Wyoming [County] came in today. Major [James Monroe Stuart] Comly returned. No enemy at the point where expected.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to John L. Motley, April 27, 1862 (Holmes is eager to give Motley the news he otherwise wouldn’t be able to get in Vienna.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/dr-oliver-wendell-holmes-sr-to-john-l.html

Laura M. Towne: Sunday, April 27, 1862 (“The blessed soldiers, with all their wrongdoing, did this one good thing — they assured the negroes that they were free and must never again let their masters claim them, nor any masters.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/laura-m-towne-sunday-april-27-1862.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 27, 1862 (“Gen. Lee is calm — but the work of preparation goes on night and day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-27.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: April 27, 1862 (“The country is shrouded in gloom because of the fall of New Orleans!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-april-27-1862.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: April 27, 1862 (“The whole country is aroused, and every man who owns a gun, and many who do not, are on the road to Corinth. We will conquer yet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-sarah-morgan-april-26-1862_4.html

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Unpinged posts:

Mary Chesnut, reply #7
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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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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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, April 28, 1862 (“Four of Company I, a sergeant, two corporals, and one private, left on Sunday to forage. They have not returned. I much fear that they are taken.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_8.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, April 28, 1862 (“Jackson has apparently been reinforced by about five thousand troops, and is now in an entrenched position just the other side of the south fork of the Shenandoah”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_18.html

Charles Ellet Jr. to Edwin M. Stanton, April 28, 1862 (“Your several dispatches have been received and acted upon. No efforts are spared to get the gunboats under way.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/charles-ellet-jr-to-edwin-m-stanton.html

Diary of Laura M. Towne: Monday, April 28, 1862 (Long description of life on a liberated South Carolina plantation.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-laura-m-towne-monday-april-28.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 28, 1862 (“We have rumors of an important cabinet meeting, wherein it was resolved to advise or command Gen. Johnston to evacuate Yorktown and retire toward Richmond!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-28.html

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Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook at reply #11.

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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

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Diary of Edward Bates, April 29, 1862 (“I cannot concur in believing McC.[lellan] a traitor. With more charity I conclude that he is only a foolish egot.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/diary-of-edward-bates-april-29-1862.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Brigadier-General Rufus Saxton, April 29, 1862 (“You are directed to take possession of all the plantations heretofore occupied by rebels”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/edwin-m-stanton-to-brigadier-general.html

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Edwin M. Stanton, April 29, 1862 (Butler’s report on getting past the Forts below New Orleans and taking the city.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/major-general-benjamin-f-butler-to_40.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, April 29, 1862 (“Colonel Scammon says we have rifled muskets at Gauley. If good long-range pieces, this is good.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_9.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, April 29, 1862 (“Our four lost men escaped. They were fired on but have got back safely. It is hard to punish men over whose escape we are so rejoiced, but it must be done.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Major Wilder Dwight, April 29, 1862 (“I rejoice in the capture of New Orleans, and believe that the 1st of June will show the Rebellion crushed and bleeding.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/major-wilder-dwight-april-29-1862.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: April 9-29, 1862 (“During this time the odor from the battle-field is sickening, and the sick list is increasing every day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-april.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, April 29, 1862 (Pvt. Daniel Ambrose & the 3rd Brigade leave Pittsburg Landing and get 5 miles toward Corinth.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_65.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 29, 1862 (“Major Griswold is here, and so is a new batch of Marylanders.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-29.html

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Continued from April 21 (reply #9).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4056175/posts#9

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from April 11 (reply #69).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4052415/posts?q=1&;page=51#69

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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