Harper’s Weekly – June 14, 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/4069219/posts

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The Ballad of the Crescent City – 1
The Progress of the Week – 1, 3
The “Hartford” in the Mississippi – 2, 8
The Work of Reconstruction – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Scene in the Tribune Office, New York – 5
The Steamer “Planter” and Her Captor – 6, 8
Our Black Friends Down South – 7-8
Baker – 8
Our Troops Marching Down into the Trenches before Richmond – 9
My Contribution – 10
A Seeress at Fault – 10-12
Union Prisoners in North Carolina – 11-12
News from the War – 13-14
The Deserter – 14
May Flowers – 14-16
The Pool and the Brook – 16
Feeding the Rebels – 17, 21
Hon. Moses F. Odell – 18
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, The Second Scene Ch. III – 18-21
Droppings – 21
Mayor Monroe’s Invitation to the French Captain as REVISED by Gen. Ben. Butler – 23

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Continued June 11 (reply #26).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4069219/posts#26

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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Edwin M. Stanton to Congressman Galusha A. Grow, June 14, 1862 (War Secretary tells Speaker Grow that Gen. Hunter has not been arming freed slaves.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/edwin-m-stanton-to-congressman-galusha.html

Senator James W. Grimes to Captain Samuel F. Du Pont, June 14, 1862 (On naval matters.)

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

Major General George B. McClellan to Edwin M. Stanton, June 14, 1862 – Midnight (“I shall advance as soon as the bridges are completed and the ground fit for artillery to move.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-b-mcclellan-to_8299.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, June 14, 1862 (Some rebels have been causing some excitement behind the lines of the Army of the Potomac.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_31.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, June 14, 1862 (The 2nd Mass. is back at their old camp site in the Shenandoah Valley.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_7.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: June 14, 1862 (“We have located for a somewhat permanent stay, as the clumsy order said, in the most beautiful little town I have yet found in Mississippi.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_17.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, June 14, 1862 (“Close by, in a winding ravine gushes a stream of sparkling water, which God, the Eternal, brews for all his children. It is beautiful, and the boys in blue kneel often there.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_33.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, June 14, 1862 (“Our God has again thrown his shield over me in the various apparent dangers to which I have been exposed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_12.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 14, 1862 (“The wounded soldiers bless the ladies, who nurse them unceasingly.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-14.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: June 14, 1862 (A member of Stuart’s Brigade stops at Newton’s home with the body of his brother, killed nearby.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-june_21.html

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There is a lithograph of supposedly the CSS Ironclad Manassas attacking the USN Hartford. Looks like the artist got bad information. In the lithograph, the Manassas looks like a casemate ironclad similar to the Merrimac/Virginia. In reality, the Manasssas had an oblong shape with only one cannon. Her primary weapon was the ram. One has to give the Confederates credit for imaginary use of the original ship acquired in the conversion to an ironclad.

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Here is a typical image I found by a search.

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

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Continued June 14 (reply #3).

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

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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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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: Sunday, June 15, 1862 (“Red-tape must be cut or important rights and interests [suffer].”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_12.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, June 15, 1862 (“By next summer the war will, perhaps, be ended and we can all spend it in Fremont together.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_14.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, June 15, 1862 (“The men pay due deference to the preaching of the gospel, though they are engaged in working war’s mad machine”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_45.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 15, 1862 (“What a change! No one now dreams of the loss of the capital.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-15.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: June 15, 1862 (“We have heard nothing from General Stuart; he had 5,000 men and three guns. The pickets have disappeared from around us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-june_22.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: June 15, 1862 (“General Stuart has just returned to camp after a most wonderful and successful raid.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-june-15-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln to his generals, reply #8
“Lee,” #9
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #10
John Nicolay, #11
George Templeton Strong, #12
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #13

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"And very few of us will have any estate to contend for, I fear, before long."

Prophetic words from Mrs. C.

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

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

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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, June 16, 1862 (Lt. Col. Hayes believes a decisive battle will soon be fought before Richmond.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_15.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: June 16, 1862 (“In the heat of the day we read and lounge in our tents, and mornings we go to the creek and bathe and then ride a dozen or so miles to keep our horses exercised.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_75.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: June 16, 1862 (“We lie around in our tents or in the shade of the trees from 9 o’clock in the morning till 4 in the afternoon, brushing away the flies, and trying to keep cool.”)

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

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, June 16, 1862 (“This morning a large detail is made from the regiment to prepare a new and permanent camping ground for the summer.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_90.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: June 16, 1862 (Union soldiers confiscate Newton’s outgoing mail.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-june_23.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Monday, June 16, 1862 (Morgan gives up keeping a journal, for some reason.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-sarah-morgan-monday-june-16.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Monday, June 16, 1862 (Nope. She can’t stop.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-sarah-morgan-monday-june-16_30.html

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

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Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, June 17, 1862 (While McClellan waits, the rebels continue to fortify Richmond.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to John Adams, June 17, 1862 (Gen. Benham must be removed – two items.)

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

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, June 17, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_30.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, June 17, 1862 (“This morning after the rain, the world around seems all beauty; the south winds blow soothingly around the Union soldiers in Mississippi.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_23.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: June 17, 1862 (“It is not yet ascertained what amount of ordnance stores we gained from the battle.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-june-17.html

Diary of Mary Brockenbrough Newton: June 17, 1862 (Locals experiencing retaliation by Union troops for Stuart’s raid.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-mary-brockenbrough-newton-june_25.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Monday, June 17, 1862 (“Yesterday, and day before, boats were constantly arriving and troops embarking from here, destined for Vicksburg.”)

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