Harper’s Weekly – August 16, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | August 16, 1862

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The Prayer Of Twenty Millions (Horace Greeley’s list of demands to President Lincoln.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/04/prayer-of-twenty-millions.html

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Tuesday, August 19, 1862 (“He sent to War Department for telegrams. There was one from Pope, at Culpeper, retiring across Rappahannock”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-tuesday-august.html

Major General Ulysses S. Grant to Mary Frances Grant, August 19, 1862 (“Their institution [slaves] are beginning to have ideas of their own; every time an expedition goes out many of them follow in the wake of the army and come into camp.”)

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

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, August 19, 1862 (“Burnside returned this morning and received me very cordially. He is quite different from McClellan in his manners, having great affability and a winning way with him that attracts instead of repelling strangers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_11.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Evening, August 19, 1862 (“we have marched through some villages, and fine farming neighborhoods in Meigs County.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_3.html

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, August 19, 1862 (“Pope has found that his army is not quite large enough to take Richmond, and is going to let the enemy once see his ‘back’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/captain-charles-fessenden-morse-august_22.html

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: August 19, 1862 (“The blacks are scrambling in this direction to a very lively tune. Over 100 came in on one road within the last 24 hours.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/1st-lieutenant-charles-wright-wills.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, August 19, 1862 (“I cannot say where I may be when I next write, but continue to direct to Stevens’ Division, 9th Army Corps”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 19, 1862 (“Day and night our troops are marching; they are now beyond the right wing of Pope, and will soon be accumulated there in such numbers as to defy the combined forces of Pope, Burnside, and McClellan!”)

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

Diary of Private Louis Leon: Up to August 19, 1862 (“Nothing new. We have a very good time here by ourselves—get plenty to eat from the ladies and visit them whenever we can get out of camp.”)

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

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 19, 1862 (The Misses Morgan host a pair of Confederate colonels.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-sarah-morgan-august-19-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #15
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #16
John Jackman, #17, #18
Johnny Green, #19
George Templeton Strong, #20
Links to 11 items at Civil War Notebook, #21

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Continued from July 22 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4079493/posts#13

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from August 14 (reply #31).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4084232/posts#31

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from August 18 (reply #12).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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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 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: Wednesday, August 20, 1862 (Welles approves a promotion for Capt. W.D. Porter, despite a sketchy history.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-wednesday-august.html

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Edwin M. Stanton, August 20, 1862 (“Our whole State appears to be volunteering.”)

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

Proclamation of Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, August 20, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/proclamation-of-governor-samuel-j_20.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, August 20, 1862 (Smith had a photo taken in Memphis.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-eliza_11.html

Major Wilder Dwight: August 20, 1862 (“We had a night’s bivouac Monday, a tedious, dusty, broiling march yesterday, and another bivouac last night behind the Rappahannock”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/major-wilder-dwight-august-20-1862.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: August 20, 1862 (Day takes some heat at the court martial of one of his men.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-august-20.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 20, 1862 (Has treachery in the War Dept. provided a spy for Gen. Pope?)

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

Diary of Private Louis Leon: August 20, 1862 (“Left here at 6 P.M. and arrived at Petersburg at 3 o’clock in the morning.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-august-20.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: August 20, 1862 (“Lynchburg is full of hospitals, to which the ladies are very attentive; and they are said to be very well kept.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-august-20-1862.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 20, 1862 (Pony cart ride, muddy children, counterfeit payment for a watermelon.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-sarah-morgan-august-20-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #23
“Team of Rivals,” #24
“Lee,” #25
William Tecumseh Sherman, #26
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #27
John Jackman, #28
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #29

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Continued from August 4 (reply #9).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4082641/posts#9

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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

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Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Abraham Lincoln, August 21, 1862 (“I am satisfied Iowa has to-day not less than eighteen, and, I believe, twenty, new regiments ready for organization, in addition to the twenty-one now in the field.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-abraham_21.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, August 21, 1862 (“I expect that in a few days we will have exciting times, and expect hourly orders for us either to hurry up to Pope’s rescue or to fall back upon Washington.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_12.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 21, 1862 (“Richmond is not in half the danger that Washington is.”)

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

Diary of Private Louis Leon: August 21, 1862 (“Left at 4 A.M. and arrived in Richmond at 6 P.M. Marched to Camp Lee, two miles from the city, and put up any tent we could get hold of”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-private-louis-leon-august-21.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: August 21, 1862 (“Miriam and mother are going to Baton Rouge in a few hours, to see if anything can be saved from the general wreck.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-sarah-morgan-august-21-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #31
John Jackman, #32
George Templeton Strong, #33
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #34

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

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, August 22, 1862 (“There is wonderful and increasing enthusiasm and determination to put down this Rebellion and sustain the integrity of the Union.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-august-22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 22, 1862 (“Saw Vice-President Stephens to day, as cordial and enthusiastic as ever.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-23_22.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: August 22, 1862 (“Sam Oppenheim, of the 44th North Carolina Regiment, an old comrade of the 1st North Carolina Regiment, came to see me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-private-louis-leon-august-22.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln reply to Horace Greeley, reply #36
“Lee,” #37
John Jackman, #38
Links to 3 items at Civil War Notebook, #39