Harper’s Weekly – August 2, 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/4081057/posts

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Vicksburg – 1-2, 6
The Hopelessness of the Rebellion – 1, 3
The Work of Congress – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Scene, Fifth Avenue – 5
Huntsville, Alabama – 6
The Army of the Potomac – 7, 9, 12, 17
Major-General John A. Dix – 8, 13
General Couch – 8
On the James River – 9-10
Flag-Presentation at New Orleans – 9-10
Our Second Lieutenant – 10-11 Lint – 13
The Ohio Oil Well: A Love Story – 13-15
California Joe – 16, 18
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, The Fourth Scene, Ch I – 18-21
Quartering On the Enemy – 21
Design for a Medal to be worn by British Statesmen, in illustration of British Progress in Virtue since 1830 – 22

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Continued from July 23 (reply #22).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4079493/posts#22

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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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 Salmon P. Chase: Saturday, August 2, 1862 (Chase does some second guessing on the Valley and Peninsula campaigns.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-saturday-august.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, August 2, 1862 (“I learn that I can’t go home to recruit the Seventy-ninth Regiment whose colonel I am to be”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_12.html

Lucy Webb Hayes to Lieut. Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, August 2, 1862 (Mrs. Hayes recalls their parting a year ago.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/lucy-webb-hayes-to-lieut-colonel.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Fessenden Morse, August 2, 1862 (Morse not much impressed by the appearance of Gen. Pope, their new CO. A Servant has a large beetle removed from his ear.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/1st-lieutenant-charles-fessenden-morse_15.html

James Russell Lowell to James T. Fields, August 2, 1862 (The poet and Atlantic Monthly editor might be recruiting for the army. Hard to say.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/james-russell-lowell-to-james-t-fields_12.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, August 2, 1862 (“This bounty business is simply disgusting. If there is so much spare money to be thrown away, it is better that it should be given to those who have borne the burden and heat of the day, than to those who enter at the eleventh hour.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_90.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 2, 1862 (“The Adjutant-General, “by order” (I suppose of the President), is annulling, one after another, all Gen. Winder’s despotic orders.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-2.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Saturday, August 2, 1862 (“to-day comes a hasty note from Charlie, telling us to leave instantly as General Breckinridge is advancing with ten thousand men to attack us”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-sarah-morgan-saturday-august-2.html

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Continued from July 23 (reply #20).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4079493/posts#20

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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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 Salmon P. Chase: Sunday August 3, 1862 (Extensive notes on a cabinet meeting.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-sunday-august-3.html

Major General Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, August 3, 1862 (“I do not want to command a department because I believe I can do better service in the field.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-jesse.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, August 3, 1862 (“. . . Was glad to be able to release Mr. Landcraft and Mrs. Roberts. This arrest was a foolish business.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_13.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: August 3, 1862 (“General [James D.] Morgan, who is in command of the infantry here, is a fine man, but lacks vim or something else. He isn’t at all positive or energetic.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_27.html

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, August 3, 1862 (“I think that [McClellan] must soon retire from his command, for the faith of his own army is leaving him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/george-william-curtis-to-charles-eliot_27.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, Early Morning, August 3, 1862 (“I trust by the time this reaches you, you may ascertain through the papers our destination. I am quite in the fog, but cling to the fancy that it must be to join Pope.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_17.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 3, 1862 (“There is a rumor that McClellan is ‘stealing away’ from his new base! and Burnside has gone up the Rappahannock to co-operate with Pope in his ‘march to Richmond.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-3.html

General P. G. T. Beauregard to General William E. Martin, August 3, 1862 (“I hope to do something shortly by taking the offensive with a well-organized army.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/general-p-g-t-beauregard-to-general.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 3, 1862 (The Morgans flee Baton Rouge as an attack on the city is expected tomorrow.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-sarah-morgan-august-3-1862.html

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Today the London Times published the letter from their New York correspondent mentioned in the first sentence below. The letter was dated July 22.

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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

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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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Major-General Philip Kearny to Oliver S. Halsted Jr., August 4, 1862 (“We have no generals. McClellan is the failure I ever proclaimed him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/major-general-philip-kearny-to-oliver-s.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, August 4, 1862 (“Company I, Greenwood muskets, fired at target one hundred yards. Best string, thirty-seven inches (4 shots); the muskets not so accurate for short ranges as the Enfields; not so well sighted.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_14.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 4, 1862 (“Lee is making herculean efforts for an “on to Washington,” while the enemy think he merely designs a defense of Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-4.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: August 4, 1862 (“A battle is now expected between Jackson and Pope.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-august-4-1862.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Monday, August 4, 1862 (“Here we are at Dr. Nolan’s plantation, with Baton Rouge lying just seven miles from us to the east. We can surely hear the cannon from here.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-sarah-morgan-monday-august-4.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #9
Lincoln letter, #10
John G. Nicolay, #11
George Templeton Strong, #12
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook.

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Continued from August 3 (reply #6).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4082641/posts#6

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from July 23 (reply #23).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4079493/posts#23

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General George B. McClellan, August 5, 1862 – 12 m. (“You cannot regret the order of the withdrawal more than I did the necessity of giving it. It will not be rescinded”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to-major_10.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, August 5, 1862 (“I did a thing that worried me this A. M. I saw two soldiers sitting on post. It was contrary to orders. I directed that they should carry knapsacks one hour.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_15.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes August 5, 1862 (Lt. Col. Hayes would like to command his own regiment, but, all things considered, he might be better off to stay with the 23rd Ohio.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_17.html

Edward Everett Hale to Charles Hale, August 5, 1862 (“The result of universal suffrage may be right or may be wrong, but it is the result which will be carried through.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/edward-everett-hale-to-charles-hale.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, August 5, 1862 (“Here we are at length at Acquia Creek. Our destination is Fredericksburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_18.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 5, 1862 (“The enemy have postponed drafting, that compulsory mode of getting men being unpopular, until after the October elections.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-5.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: August 5, 1862 (“We received marching orders to-day. We embarked on the train at Weldon [Virginia], went down the Seaboard road a distance of twenty-five miles, and marched from there to Roberts’ Chapel.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-august-5.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 5, 1862 (Morgan and others at Dr. Nolan’s plantation view the Arkansas before the battle then listed to the guns at Baton Rouge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-sarah-morgan-august-5-1862.html

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Continued from July 8 (reply #21).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4076156/posts#21

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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