Harper’s Weekly – June 7, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | 6/7/1862

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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/4067504/posts

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The Skirmish at Cold Harbor – 1, 3
The Retreat of Banks – 1-2
Rebel Cowardice – 2
The Army of the Potomac – 2, 10-12, 16-17
About Finished – 2
The Lounger – 2-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Scene in Richmond, Va. – 5
Foreign News – 5
General Halleck’s Army – 6-8, 11
The General Hospital at Fortress Monroe – 9, 11
Love versus Beauty – 11
Flirting on the Beach – 13
Wrecked on Island Number 10 – 13-15
Jeff Davis’s Coachman – 15, 17
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, The Second Scene Ch. II – 17-20
Essays and Remarks – 20
Some Specimens of “Secesh” Industry-Intended for the London Exhibition of 1862, but unfortunately intercepted by the “Paper Blockade.” – 22

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

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William H. Seward to Theodorus Marinus Roest van Limburg, June 7, 1862 (Messages between Sec. Seward and the Netherlands Envoy to the U.S. Four items.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/william-h-seward-to-theodorus-marinus_82.html

Theodorus Marinus Roest van Limburg to William H. Seward, June 7, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/theodorus-marinus-roest-van-limburg-to_33.html

William H. Seward to Theodorus Marinus Roest van Limburg, June 7, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/william-h-seward-to-theodorus-marinus_28.html

Theodorus Marinus Roest van Limburg to William H. Seward, June 7, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/theodorus-marinus-roest-van-limburg-to_97.html

Major General George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, June 7, 1862 – 4:40 p.m. (“I shall be in perfect readiness to move forward and take Richmond the moment McCall reaches here and the ground will admit the passage of artillery.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-b-mcclellan-to_9.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: [Saturday] Morning, June 7, 1862 (“No prospect of moving yet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_3.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, June 7, 1862 (“This morning we do not move. The regiment is soon busy building bower houses to shield them from the sun.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/03/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_54.html

John M. Forbes to Congressman Charles B. Sedgwick, June 7, 1862 (“Cannot you get some ingenuous Hunker . . . to offer a little simple amendment to the emancipation bill that shall provide for the freedom of any slave (and his family) who may serve the United States”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/john-m-forbes-to-congressman-charles-b_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 7, 1862 (“But business is in a great measure suspended, and so I have another holiday.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-7.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: June 7, 1862 (A fruitless trip to Weldon Bridge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-private-louis-leon-june-7-1862.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: June 7, 1862 (“We have been now surrounded by the enemy for two weeks, cut off from every relative except our two households.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-june_15.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 7, 1862 (“Sad news from the Valley. The brave, gallant, dashing General Ashby has fallen!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-7-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

Mary B. Chesnut, reply #3
John Jackman, #4
Johnny Green, #5
Links to 12 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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

Continued from May 31 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4067504/posts#3

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued June 5 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4067504/posts#13

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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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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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, June 8, 1862 (“Our horses rested and fed up were in high spirits.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_4.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, June 8, 1862 (“To-day, Halleck’s vast army is resting beneath the shady forests of Mississippi.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/03/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_86.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 8, 1862 (“I learn that Col. Bledsoe has to grant passports to the army, as the pickets have been instructed to let no one pass upon the order of Gen. Winder or his Provost Marshal.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-8.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: June 8, 1862 (“I am very tired from our first night’s march.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-private-louis-leon-june-8-1862.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: June 8, 1862 (“Thousands and thousands of our men are slain, and we seem to be no nearer the end than at first.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-june_16.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, June 8, 1862 (The Morgans reluctantly accept a barrel of flour from Yankee Thomas Gen. Williams.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-sarah-morgan-sunday-june-8-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword” and map from West Point Atlas, reply #8
“Lee,” #9
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #10
John G. Nicolay, #11
John Jackman, #12
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #13

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Continued June 8 (reply #9).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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

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William H. Seward to Theodorus Marinus Roest van Limburg, June 9, 1862 (Continued correspondence between the Secretary of State and the Netherlands envoy – 3 items.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/william-h-seward-to-theodorus-marinus.html

Theodorus Marinus Roest van Limburg to William H. Seward, June 9, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/theodorus-marinus-roest-van-limburg-to_28.html

Theodorus Marinus Roest van Limburg to William H. Seward, June 9, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/theodorus-marinus-roest-van-limburg-to.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Julia Dent Grant, June 9, 1862 (Grant praises Gen. Sherman’s performance at Shiloh.)

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

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, June 9, 1862 (“a summer campaign in the South must be terribly fatal to our troops.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_7.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, June 9, 1862 (“Heard of the taking of Memphis after a battle of gunboats lasting an hour and twenty minutes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_5.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: June 9, 1862 (Sight-seeing around Corinth. Dinner with Gen. Rosecrans.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_15.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, June 9, 1862 (“The roads are very dusty; water is becoming scarcer; what we have is of an inferior quality; we need rain very much.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/03/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_24.html

John L. Motley to Anna Lothrop Motley, June 9, 1862 (“I am convinced that the conflict is the result of antagonisms the violent collision of which could no longer be deferred, and that its duration must necessarily be longer than most of us anticipated.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/john-l-motley-to-anna-lothrop-motley.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 9, 1862 (“It is now apparent that matters were miserably managed on the battle-field, until Gen. Lee assumed command in person.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-9.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: June 9, 1862 (“when I see insolent fellows riding around and around our dwellings, seeking what they may devour, every evil feeling of my heart is kindled against them and their whole nation.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-june_18.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 9, 1862 – Night (“General Jackson is performing prodigies of valor in the Valley; he has met the forces of Fremont and Shields, and whipped them in detail.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-9-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lee,” reply #15
George Templeton Strong, #16
Mary Chesnut, #17
Links to 12 items at Civil War Notebook, #18

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Continued from May 30 (reply #44).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4065754/posts#44

Jean Edward Smith, Grant