Harper’s Weekly – July 5, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 5, 1862

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from July 6 (reply #8).

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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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: Tuesday, July 8, 1862 (“Our forces have not, I think, been discouraged or in any degree lost confidence, by reason of anything that has occurred before Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_13.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: July 8, 1862 (“Oh, I wish I were old enough to go on a hospital ship or offer my services as nurse.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell-july-8.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 8, 1862 (“Glorious Col. Morgan has dashed into Kentucky, whipped everything before him, and got off unharmed. He had but little over a thousand men, and captured that number of prisoners. Kentucky will rise in a few weeks.”)

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

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #21
“Terrible Swift Sword,” #22
Mary B. Chesnut, #23
Links to 3 items at Civil War Notebook.

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from June 11 (reply #27)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4069219/posts#27

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Continued from June 28 (reply #4).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4074541/posts#4

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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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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Proclamation of Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, July 9, 1862 (A call for troops from Iowa.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/proclamation-of-governor-samuel-j.html

Dr. Oscar De Wolf to Sarah Hathaway Forbes, July 9, 1862 (Thanks for the medical supplies.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/dr-oscar-de-wolf-to-sarah-hathaway.html

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, July 9, 1862 (“Our enemy has met with a heavy loss, from which it must take him some time to recover before he can recommence his operations.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/general-robert-e-lee-to-mary-custis-lee_21.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 9, 1862 (“Lee has turned the tide, and I shall not be surprised if we have a long career of successes.”)

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

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: July 9, 1862 (Sugar and coffee are becoming rare.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-july-9.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Wednesday, July 9, 1862 (The Morgan girls put on a balcony recital for their own amusement and are discomfited when they hear applause from a Yankee audience.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-sarah-morgan-wednesday-july-9.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #26
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #27
“Lincoln,” #28
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #29
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #30

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https://www.iowasuvcw.org/iowa-in-the-civil-war

…The population of Iowa in 1860 was 675,000 living in 124,000 households. Of this number 116,000 were men of military age. 76,534 would serve, 11% of our total population, 13,169 or one out of six would not return…

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Continued from July 8 (reply #22).

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from July 4 (reply #60).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4074541/posts?q=1&;page=51#60

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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Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, July 10, 1862 (A train to Memphis was attacked by Confederate cavalry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_28.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, July 10, 1862 (“I have just read the Commercial’s story of the six days’ battles. What dreadful fighting, suffering, weariness, and exhaustion were there!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_14.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, July 10, 1862 (“We are expecting one of these days to be sent to eastern Virginia, if all we hear is true.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_15.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 10, 1862 (“My chronicles are designed to assist history, and to supply the smaller incidents and details which the grand historian would be likely to omit.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-10.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: July 10, 1862 (“What a stretch of tyranny! O free America! You who uphold free people, free speech, free everything, what a foul blot of despotism rests on a once spotless name!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-sarah-morgan-july-10-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #33
“Lee,” #34
Mary Chesnut, #35
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #36

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Continued from July 9 (reply #28).

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from June 25 (reply #29).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4072806/posts#29

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from June 23 (reply #14).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4072806/posts#14

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One