Harper’s Weekly – July 5, 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/4074541/posts

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Before Richmond – 1
Important Political Movement – 1-2
Memphis Under the Stars and Stripes – 2, 6-8, 13
The Lounger – 2-4
Cumberland Gap Occupied – 3, 5
Humors of the Day – 4-5
Domestic Intelligence – 5
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. IX, Scene 3, Ch II – 6-9
The Army of the Potomac – 10, 13, 17
Brig.-General Silas Casey – 11, 16
Brigadier-General Hooker – 11
The War for the Union – a Cavalry Charge – 12
Correspondence: The Eighteenth United States Infantry – 13
One of Our Heroes – 13-16
The Last Ditch at Last – 16
The Approach to Charleston – 18, 20
Threescore and Ten – 19
Captain Clitheroe of the Twenty-Third – 19-20
The Jew’s Garden – 20
One Who Knows His Own Value – 21

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

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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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William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams, July 5, 1862 (Secretary of State to Lincoln’s Minister to Great Britain.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/william-h-seward-to-charles-francis.html

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens: In the United States House of Representatives, July 5, 1862 (Stevens is not happy with how the administration is conducting the war.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/congressman-thaddeus-stevens-in-united.html

Robert Mallory in the United States House of Representatives, July 5, 1862 (“I shrink from arming the slave, using him to shoot down white men, knowing his depraved nature as I do.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/robert-mallory-in-united-states-house.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, July 5, 1862 (Hayes hears that McClellan had entered Richmond. His hopes are soon dashed.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_7.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: July 5, 1862 (Celebrating the Fourth at Camp Oliver, North Carolina.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-july-5.html

Jefferson Davis to the Army of Eastern Virginia, July 5, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/jefferson-davis-to-army-of-eastern.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 5, 1862 (“Gen. Lee is bringing forward the conscript regiments with rapidity; and so large are his powers that the Secretary of War has but little to do.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-5.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: July 5, 1862 (“’The darkest hour is just before the day’; we have had the blackest night for almost three months, and I don’t see the light yet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-sarah-morgan-july-5-1862.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: July 5, 1862 – 1 o’clock p.m. (“Thus far had I reached when news came that our forces were attacking the town, and had already driven the pickets in! I am well now.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-sarah-morgan-july-5-1862-1.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: July 5, 1862 – 6 p.m. (False alarm. No Confederate attack.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-sarah-morgan-july-5-1862-6-pm.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letter to McClellan, reply #3
John Jackman, #4
Mary Chesnut, #5
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Continued from July 4 (reply #58).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4074541/posts?q=1&;page=51#58

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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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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Brigadier-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, July 6, 1862 (Sedgwick lost his favorite horse during the Seven Days.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/brigadier-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_16.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, July 6, 1862 (“Nothing new from Richmond today. What is the condition there? Is our army merely pushed back by superior numbers or has it been defeated?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_9.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, July 6, 1862 (“I knew you would be troubled when Fremont was relieved from duty, and perhaps still more when you hear of McClellan’s repulse before Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Brigadier-General J.E.B. Stuart to Colonel L. S. Baker (“General Jackson is anxious to see Captain Rufus Barringer. Please send him up this afternoon, as Gen. J. may be gone after that.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/brigadier-general-jeb-stuart-to-colonel.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 6, 1862 (“Thousands of fathers, brothers, mothers, and sisters of the wounded are arriving in the city to attend their suffering relations, and to recover the remains of those who were slain.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-6.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 6, 1862 (“We got orders to march this morning. Left here with two days’ rations of corn meal and bacon in our haversacks. We got to Petersburg in the evening—fifteen miles—after a hard march.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-6-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #8
John G. Nicolay, #9
George Templeton Strong, #10
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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Thanking you, as always, Homer.

McClellan's Saga continues....What will we do with him?

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McClellan's Saga continues....What will we do with him?

The question Lincoln goes to sleep with and wakes up with every day.

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And no telling how McClellan haunts Abe’s dreams.

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

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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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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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Major General George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, July 7, 1862 (”The Harrison Landing Letter”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/major-general-george-b-mcclellan-to_2744.html

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Abraham Lincoln, July 7, 1862 (Iowa will send her share of volunteers for the army.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-abraham.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, July 7, 1862 (“The news of today looks favorable. McClellan seems to have suffered no defeat. He has changed front”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_11.html

Captain William F. Bartlett to Lieutenant-Colonel Francis W. Palfrey, July 7, 1862 (Capt. Bartlett, even missing a leg, hopes to rejoin the 20th Massachusetts)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/captain-william-f-bartlett-to_15.html

General Robert E. Lee’s General Orders No. 75 (Thanks to the Army of Northern Virginia for service during the Seven Days.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/general-robert-e-lees-general-orders-no.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 7, 1862 (“The Yankees are disgracing McClellan, the best general they have.”)

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

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 7, 1862 (“We return to our factory girls again—all O. K., you bet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-7-1862.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: July 7, 1862 (A prowler was spotted outside the Morgan house. A Butler spy or a peeping Tom?)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-sarah-morgan-july-7-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

George Templeton Strong, reply #16
John Jackman, #17
John G. Nicolay, #18
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #19