Harper’s Weekly – August 9, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | August 9, 1862

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, August 15, 1862 (Lincoln recalls the 1860 election and how he chose a cabinet.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-august-15.html

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Friday August 15, 1862 (Chase doesn’t like Lincoln’s colonization plan.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-friday-august.html

Major Wilder Dwight: August 15, 1862 (“Our crippled regiment turns out to its duties and parades as if nothing had happened to it, while its thinned ranks and vacant posts tell the story of its trial and losses, — of its glory too.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/major-wilder-dwight-august-15-1862.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 15, 1862 (“Moved my office to an upper story of the Bank of Virginia, where the army intelligence office is located”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-15.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #38
“Lee,” #39
John Jackman, #40
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #41