Harper’s Weekly – May 17, 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/4061989/posts

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George Peabody – 1, 7
Mrs. Major Reynolds – 1
The Censorship of the Press – 1, 3
Gen. M’Clellan’s Army – 2, 6, 8-10, 15
The Monroe Doctrine – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Commodore Farragut, U.S.N. – 7
Our Fleet in the Mississippi – 10-12
Old Ben: The Scout of the Tennessee Mountains – 13-14
“Drowned! Drowned!” – 14
Lute – 14-15
Fort Macon Repossessed – 15-16
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. XV – 17-20
The Mayor of New Orleans yielding to “Brute Force” – 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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Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, May 17, 1862 (“Six weeks will tell the story; in that time we shall beat them badly or be beaten ourselves”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/brigadier-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_6.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, May 17, 1862 (“Ordered at 3 A. M. to abandon camp and hasten with whole force to General [Jacob] Cox at Princeton.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_28.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, May 17, 1862 (“Water is becoming very scarce. The regiment is compelled to keep guard over their wells. Our lines are advanced one-half mile this evening.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_73.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 17, 1862 (“Gen. Lee has admonished Major Griswold on the too free granting of passports. Will it do any good?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-17.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: May 17, 1862 (“The corps of cadets could not get the permission of the Board of Visitors to continue in the service, or they would have gone on with Jackson’s army, as he desired them to do.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-may-17.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: May 17, 1862 (“Come to my bosom, O my discarded carving-knife, laid aside under the impression that these men were gentlemen. We will be close friends once more. And if you must have a sheath, perhaps I may find one for you in the heart of the first man who attempts to Butlerize me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-sarah-morgan-may-17-1862.html

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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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Edwin M. Stanton to Reverend Heman Dyer, May 18, 1862 (The War Secretary assures a friend that he is a great supporter of Gen. McClellan.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/private-andconfidential.html

Commander Samuel P. Lee to the Authorities at Vicksburg, May 18, 1862 (U.S. Naval officer demands the surrender of Vicksburg.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/samuel-p-lee-to-authorities-at.html

Brigadier-General Martin L. Smith to Commander Samuel P. Lee, May 18, 1862 (The Confederate commander at Vicksburg declines to surrender the city.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-martin-l-smith-to.html

James L. Autry to Commander Samuel P. Lee, May 18, 1862 (“I have to state that Mississippians don’t know and refuse to learn how to surrender to an enemy. If Commodore Farragut or Brigadier-General Butler can teach them, let them come and try.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/james-l-autry-to-samuel-p-lee-may-18.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, May 18, 1862 (“We have all been pleasantly excited by the cunning escape of the negroes from Charleston with the Steamer ‘Planter.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, May 18, 1862 (“In the fights we have lost in our army, chiefly Thirty-seventh and Thirty-fourth, near one hundred killed, wounded, and prisoners.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_29.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, May 18, 1862 (“This morning we form our line and commence throwing up breastworks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_26.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 18, 1862 (“All quiet to-day except the huzzas as fresh troops arrive.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-18.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: May 18, 1862 (“The 16th was the day appointed by the President for fasting and prayer. The churches here were filled, as I trust they were all over the land.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-may-18-1862.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: May 18, 1862 (The alleged approach of the Yankees makes it hard to find a church for fast day services.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-may.html

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Today’s posts:

John Jackman, reply #6
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, 7

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Continued from May 7 (reply #31).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4059920/posts#31

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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

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Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, May 19, 1862 (“[Lincoln] evidently fears the accumulation of forces under Beauregard and said he had and would again telegraph Halleck not to move forward until he was certain to win.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/11/senator-john-sherman-to-major-general_13.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 19, 1862 (“The cars are running to the river, and the bridge for the railroad is nearly completed. We now await the arrival of General Shields’s division, when I suppose we will start for Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_21.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, May 19, 1862 (“Yesterday we were in a sharp engagement. Had thirteen men killed and thirty-five wounded. We were victorious, and drew the enemy from position.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_29.html

Lucy Webb Hayes to Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, May 19, 1862 (Mrs. Hayes put up a few sick or wounded men overnight.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/lucy-webb-hayes-to-lieutenant-colonel.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: May 19, 1862 (“Our regiment now is acting as a kind of rear guard for Pope’s division. The enemy’s cavalry in bodies of from 1,000 down have been running around our left flank and threatening to interfere with our trains.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills-may_6.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, May 19, 1862 (“All day we are drawn up in line of battle behind our works; the pickets continue skirmishing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_3.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: May 19, 1862 (Lt. Robert Shaw home on leave.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell-may-19.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, May 19, 1862 (“. . How I do desire to see our country free and at peace!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_18.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 19, 1862 (Jones believes Richmond must be held to the end.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-19.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #9
Lincoln proclamation, #10
John G. Nicolay, #11
Mary Chesnut, #12
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #13

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Continued from May 19 (reply #9).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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

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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, May 20, 1862 (“No news yet of Richmond’s having been taken, but it is likely soon to fall unless we are defeated.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_30.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, May 20, 1862 (“It is now believed that the enemy, since their reverses in eastern Virginia, have been sending heavy bodies of troops this way; that our force is wholly inadequate to its task, and must wait here until largely strengthened.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Tuesday, May 20, 1862 (Here we are “back again” — fifty or sixty miles in rear of the advanced position we had taken.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_2.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: May 20, 1862 (How to collect turpentine from trees.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-may-20.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, May 20, 1862 (“Last night God smiled upon the army by opening the windows of heaven and causing the rain to fall.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: May 20, 1862 (“The confidence in the President was shown by the entire acquiescence in everything he does. We feel that he is earnest and means to do right.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell-may-19_21.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 20, 1862 (“The President, in response to the Legislative Committee, announced that Richmond would be defended. A thrill of joy electrifies every heart, a smile of triumph is on every lip.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-20.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #15
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #16
John Jackman, #17
George Templeton Strong, #18
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #19