Posted on 08/16/2022 6:41:12 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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
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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4084232/posts
Continued from July 26 (reply #3). Lincoln told of Mary distributing fruit and flowers to hospital patients, as described in the 6th paragraph below, in a letter he wrote on this date.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4081057/posts#3
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, August 16, 1862 (Halleck and Stanton need to keep the Navy Department better informed on army operations.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-august.html
Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Saturday, August 16, 1862. (“New regiments begin to arrive, but reason to hope more from new levies than old? None, that I see, except Genl. Halleck”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-saturday-august.html
Major-General John A. Dix to Brigadier-General Joseph K. F. Mansfield, August 16, 1862 (“There is nothing in your position or mine which can excuse either of us for depriving any man of his liberty without a full and impartial examination.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/major-general-john-dix-to-brigadier_15.html
Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, August 16, 1862 (Meade to command a brigade in Gen. John F. Reynolds’ division.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_9.html
Brigadier-General Lorenzo Thomas to Edwin M. Stanton, August 16, 1862 (“The army is in fine spirits and splendid fighting order, and only wish they may be attacked.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/brigadier-general-lorenzo-thomas-to.html
Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, August 16, 1862 (Capt. Lusk’s mother is disappointed he won’t get promoted to Lt. Col. In the 18th Connecticut Infantry Regiment.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/elizabeth-adams-lusk-to-captain-william.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 16, 1862 (“We have intelligence from the West of a simultaneous advance of several of our columns. This is the work of Lee.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-16.html
Today’s posts:
“Team of Rivals,” reply #3
George Templeton Strong, #4
John Jackman, #5
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #6
Looking at those amazing sketches we don’t appreciate the artists who drew them.
Most as nearly as good as photos.
Continued from August 15 (reply #39).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4084232/posts#39
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, August 17, 1862 (“A difficulty has existed from the beginning in the military, and I may say general, management of the War.” Interesting entry by Welles.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-august-17.html
Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, August 17, 1862 (Sit rep from 5th Division HQ, Memphis)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_23.html
Major Wilder Dwight: Sunday, August 17, 1862 (Long description of Battle of Cedar Mountain.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/major-wilder-dwight-sunday-august-17.html
William Cullen Bryant to Dr. Dewey, August 17, 1862 (Bryant knows how the war should be conducted – 2 items.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/william-cullen-bryant-to-dr-dewey.html
William Cullen Bryant to Reverend Horatio N. Powers, of Chicago, August 17, 1862
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/william-cullen-bryant-to-reverend.html
General Robert E. Lee to Col. G. W. Custis Lee, written between July 31 & August 17, 1862 (“I go to Gordonsville. My after movements depend on circumstances that I cannot foresee.”
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/general-robert-e-lee-to-col-g-w-custis_25.html
General Robert E. Lee, August 17, 1862 (“General Pope says he is very strong, and seems to feel so, for he is moving apparently up to the Rapidan.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/general-robert-e-lee-august-17-1862.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 17, 1862 (Jones thinks Missouri and Kentucky will throw out the Yankees.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-17.html
Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 17, 1862 (“Wicked as it may seem, I would rather have all I own burned, than in the possession of the negroes.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-sarah-morgan-august-17-1862.html
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, August 18, 1862 (“Had a letter from Fox at Portsmouth. Says there are traitors even there.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-august-18.html
Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Monday, August 18, 1862 (“I went to call on Colonels Corcoran and Wilcox, returned yesterday from their long captivity in Richmond.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-monday-august.html
Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Evening, August 18, 1862 (“You will hereafter direct letters to me ‘General [Jacob D.] Cox’s Division, Army of Virginia.’”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_23.html
John L. Motley to Anna Lothrop Motley, August 18, 1862 (“There is no doubt, I believe, that Louis Napoleon passes most of his time in urging the English government to unite with him in interfering on behalf of the slave-dealing, negro-breeding Confederacy”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/john-l-motley-to-anna-lothrop-motley.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 18, 1862 (“The clans are gathering, and 20,000 more, half mounted on hardy horses, will soon be marching for the prairie country of the enemy.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-18.html
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4084232/posts#38
Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
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