Harper’s Weekly – May 17, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | May 17, 1862

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Continued from May 20 (reply #15).

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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Abraham Lincoln to James G. Bennett, May 21, 1862 (Lincoln to the New York Herald publisher.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/abraham-lincoln-to-james-g-bennett-may.html

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Brigadier General John W. Phelps, May 21, 1862 (Gen. Phelps needs to teach his provost-marshal his duty.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/major-general-benjamin-f-butler-to_3.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, May 21, 1862 (We shall see and take part in the greatest battle of the age, unless the enemy evacuate Corinth, which I do not expect.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_30.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, Wednesday, May 21, 1862 (“Drilled the regiment this morning; marched to the summit of Flat Top, thence along the summit to the Raleigh Road, and so back to camp.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Wednesday, May 21, 1862 (“Simultaneous with the first direful echo, the hideous shot and shell leaped from the whole line, all the way from Sherman to Pope”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_91.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 21, 1862 (“There are skirmishes every day, and we can hear both the artillery and musketry from the hills on the outskirts of the city, whither some of us repair every afternoon.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-21.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: May 21, 1862 (“I who have such a terror of any one seeing my naked foot! And this is thanks to war and blockade! Not a decent shoe in the whole community!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-sarah-morgan-may-21-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #21
Lincoln note to McClellan, #22
John G. Nicolay, #24
Mary B. Chesnut, #25
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #26

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Continued May 15 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4061989/posts#25

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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Senator James W. Grimes to Elizabeth S. Nealley Grimes, May 22, 1862 (Stanton has been on the “rampage” again, and called out the militia. There has never been any danger here.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/senator-james-w-grimes-to-elizabeth-s_4.html

Diary of Captain John A. Dahlgren: May 22, 1862 (“about nine came a carriage with Stanton and, to my surprise, the President, bound on a quiet trip to Acquia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/diary-of-captain-john-dahlgren-may-22.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, Thursday, May 22, 1862 (“A Captain Jenkins, of Kentucky, came from General Williams to negotiate as to exchange of prisoners.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_9.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, May 22, 1862 (“Before this reaches you, the great battles of the war will probably be fought. If successful, we shall not meet with much determined opposition hereafter.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_10.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Thursday, May 22, 1862 (“All day we lay behind our entrenchments; our works of defense seem impregnable. It is now quiet along our picket line. The rebels are drawing in their advance.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_14.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: May 22, 1862 (“Rob is very much dissatisfied with the little prospect of fighting they seem to have and has two plans on hand for leaving the regiment.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell-may-22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 22, 1862 (“Gen. Jackson, sent thither by Gen. Lee, is sweeping everything before him, defeating Shields, Banks, Fremont, and one or two other Yankee major-generals, with his little corps d’armée!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-22.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: May 22, 1862 (“Papers from Richmond to-day. We are not yet in the enemy’s lines.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-may_5.html

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Continued from May 8 (reply #36).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4059920/posts#36

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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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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Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Brigadier General John W. Phelps, May 23, 1862 (“You will cause all unemployed persons, black and white, to be excluded from your lines.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/major-general-benjamin-f-butler-to.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 23, 1862 (“To-day we had a visit from the President and the Secretary of War, in anticipation of an immediate forward movement.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_22.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday, May 23, 1862 (“Mr. French lies here wounded — his thigh bone shattered by a ball that passed clear through his leg. Dr. McCurdy thinks he will not survive more than three or four weeks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_11.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Friday, May 23, 1862 (“To-day our regiment is detailed to advance with the picket line and protect a fatigue party while building roads and bridges for the advance of our division.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_51.html

John M. Forbes to Edward Atkinson, May 23, 1862 (On a major project to aid freed slaves.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/john-m-forbes-to-edward-atkinson-march.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 23, 1862 (“Gen. Winder has issued an order fixing the maximum prices of certain articles of marketing, which has only the effect of keeping a great many things out of market.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-23.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: May 23, 1862 (“The enemy’s pickets gradually encroaching upon us. A squad of their cavalry has been in the Hanover Town lane all day”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-may_53.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #31
John Jackman, #32
Mary Chesnut, #33
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #34