Harper’s Weekly – July 19, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 19, 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/4077834/posts

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Aceldama – 1
On to Richmond! – 1
Foreign Intervention Once More – 1-2, 4
Brig.-Gen. George A. M’Call – 2, 9-10
General Fitz-John Porter – 2, 9
The “White House” – 3
The Retort Courteous – 4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 5
Domestic Intelligence – 5-6
Foreign News – 6
The Scape-Goat Now on Exhibition in Washington – 6
Richmond Newsboy Announcing the Rebel Success!!! – 6
The Army of the Potomac – 7-8, 11-12, 16-18, 20-21
The Burnside Exhibition – 10
Wife and I – 13
The Major’s Daughter – 13-14
Sans Coeur – 14
Toujours Fidele – 14-16
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. IX, Scene 3, Ch IV – 18-20

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

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George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, July 19, 1862 (Report from the Secretary’s man in New Orleans.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/george-s-denison-to-salmon-p-chase-july.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday July 19, 1862 (“Read with a good deal of levity the accounts of John Morgan’s raid into the blue-grass region of Kentucky.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_25.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: July 19, 1862 (“Two spies came in to-night and report that there are not more than 15,000 or 20,000 of the enemy left at Tupelo and Saltillo.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_23.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, approximately July 19, 1862 (“I have been staying [in Gordonsville, Va.] for a few days with Mrs. Barbour, mother-in-law of the Rev. Mr. Ewing, of our church”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_18.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 19, 1862 (More passport excitement.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-19.html

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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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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday July 20, 1862 (“Morgan’s gang, or Rebels encouraged by him, have got into Warrick County, Indiana. This is the first successful (if it turns out successful) invasion of free soil.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_26.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, July 20, 1862 (Capt. Lusk had his picture taken at Fortress Monroe.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_8.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 20, 1862 (“the Beaverdam Depot was burnt by the enemy, information of its defenseless condition having been given by a Jew peddler, who obtained no passport from me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-20.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, July 20, 1862 (The frustration of being a member of the fair sex during a time of crisis.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-sarah-morgan-sunday-july-20.html

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Continued from July 13 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4077834/posts#13

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from June 20 (reply #26).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4070960/posts#26

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James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

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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 Salmon P. Chase, Monday, July 21, 1862. (Chase on the cabinet meeting described above.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-monday-july-21_9.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday July 21, 1862 (“A zouave at the Flat Top camp found tied to a tree with five bullet holes through him! Naked too!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 21, 1862 (Jones refuses to grant a passport to a suspicious looking army officer.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-21.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: July 21, 1862 (“It is reported that General Jackson has gone to meet General Pope, who is on this side of the Blue Ridge, marching, it is supposed, to join McClellan.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-july-21-1862.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: July 21, 1862, Midnight (A battle seems to have begun at Baton Rouge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-sarah-morgan-july-21-1862.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: July 21, 1862 (5,000 additional Union troops expected at Baton Rouge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-sarah-morgan-july-21-1862_29.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #8
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life.” #9
John Jackman, #10
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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Continued from July 13 (reply #11).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4077834/posts#11

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from July 21 (reply #8).

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from July 13 (reply #14).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4077834/posts#14

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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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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Preliminary Draft Of The Emancipation Proclamation

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/04/preliminary-draft-of-emancipation.html

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Tuesday, July 22d, 1862 (On the cabinet meeting.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-tuesday-july.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, July 22, 1862 (Col. Smith is in Memphis with Gen. Sherman.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Colonel John T. L. Preston, July 22, 1862 (On financial matters.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 22, 1862 (Jones has an angry confrontation with Gen. Winder over a passport.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-22.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: July 22, 1862 (Frank Preston was wounded, captured and treated by Union surgeons, and slipped back home.)

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

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Tuesday July 22, 1862 (Still preparing for the expected Confederate attack on Baton Rouge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-sarah-morgan-tuesday-july-22.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #13
“Team of Rivals,” #14
“Lincoln,” #15
Lincoln to Stanton, #16
John Jackman, #17
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #18

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Continued from July 15 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4077834/posts#27

The War in the West

The War in the East

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword