Harper’s Weekly – August 9, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | August 9, 1862

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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 Gideon Welles: Tuesday, August 12, 1862 (“Mr. Seward has a passion to be thought a master spirit in the Administration, and to parade before others an exhibition of authority which if permitted is not always exercised wisely or intelligently.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-august.html

Major-General John A. Dix to Brigadier-General Joseph K. F. Mansfield, August 12, 1862 (Take care in arresting Virginians on mere suspicion of insurgency.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/major-general-john-dix-to-brigadier.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, August 12, 1862 (Meade looks to be returning to duty after recovering from his wound.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_8.html

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Edwin M. Stanton, August 12, 1862 – 8:45 p.m. (Gov. Kirkwood wants more time to fill his regiments.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-edwin-m_19.html

Major-General George B. McClellan to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, August 12, 1862 – 11 p.m. (Reasons for the delay in withdrawing the Army of the Potomac.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/major-general-george-b-mcclellan-to_10.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, August 12, 1862 (Hayes commits to becoming colonel of the 79th Ohio Infantry Regiment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_31.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, August 12, 1862 (“I feel like shedding tears when I think of leaving these men, but I at once get into a quiet laugh when I think of what I am going to — a thousand-headed monster!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, August 12, 1862 (“We have had some fighting and a good deal of excitement and night riding and duty of various sorts during the last week. We have been exceedingly lucky, losing, so far as I know, but one man.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_2.html

Robert Gould Shaw to Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, August 12, 1862 (“There were four hundred and seventy-four enlisted men taken into action in the Second. Of these one hundred and twenty were killed and wounded, and thirty-seven missing. They were not under fire more than thirty minutes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/robert-gould-shaw-to-sarah-blake_9.html

John M. Forbes to William Curtis Noyes, August 12, 1862 (Discussion of Forbes’ plan to unite the north to fight the war.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/john-m-forbes-to-william-curtis-noyes_20.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: August 12, 1862 (Nahant MA mourns their dead from Cedar Mountain.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell-august_20.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 12, 1862 (“Pope claims a victory! So did McClellan. But truth will rise, in spite of everything.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-12.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 12, 1862 (Sarah continues her narrative of the flight from Baton Rouge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-sarah-morgan-august-12-1862.html

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I forgot to ping the list to John Jackman at reply #21.

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Continued from August 9 (reply #3).

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from August 11 (reply #16).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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Major Wilder Dwight: August 13, 1862 – 9 p.m. (On Cedar Mountain casualties.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/major-wilder-dwight-august-13-1862-9-pm.html

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, August 13, 1862 (An account of the 2nd Massachusetts at Cedar Mountain.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/captain-charles-fessenden-morse-august.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 13, 1862 (“McClellan is gone, bag and baggage, abandoning his ‘base’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-13.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 13, 1862 (Sarah fears all the belongings they left at Baton Rouge have been destroyed by the Yankees.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-sarah-morgan-august-13-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #24
“Lee,” #25
John Jackman, #26
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #27

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John Jackman, take 2

Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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I’ve been in a foxhole with water up to my ying yang. Miserable.

5.56mm

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Continued from July 22 (reply #14).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4079493/posts#14

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from July 22 (reply #15).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4079493/posts#15

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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Continued from August 2 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4082641/posts#3

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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Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith, August 14, 1862 (“Major Fisher of my regiment has been appointed Assistant Provost Marshal of Memphis, which leaves me with the whole regiment on my hands without assistance”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_8.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith, August 14, 1862 (“To-day our brigade, which is considered the crack brigade of the army here, is to be received; in this I have, of course, to lead my regiment.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-august-14.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: August 14, 1862 (“We are raking in about 100 bales of cotton per day and could get more if we had the transportation. It makes the chivalry howl, which is glorious music in our ears”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills_0.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 14, 1862 (“Now let Lincoln beware, for there is danger. A mighty army, such as Napoleon himself would have been proud to command, is approaching his capital.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-14.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #31
“Lincoln,” #32
Lincoln address, #33
Grant’s memoirs, #34
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #35
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #36

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Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from August 13 (reply #25).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis