Harper’s Weekly – September 6, 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/4089419/posts

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Mr. T.F. Rowland – 1-2
The “Ironsides” – 1, 3
Improved Ordnance – 1
The President and Slavery – 1-2
Going to Chiriqui – 2
The Draft – 2-3
A Correction – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4-5
Domestic Intelligence – 5
Foreign News – 5
The Battle at Baton Rouge – 6-7, 15-16
The Drummer of the Illinois Twenty _th – 8-9
Manhattan: Our Island Express – 9-11
The Finances of the Rebellion – 11
Our Women and the War – 12-13
Baton Rouge – 13
Strange and Yet True – 13-14
Manners Make the Man – 14-15
The Army of the Potomac at Yorktown – 17, 21
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, The Fourth Scene, Ch VII – 18-21
The Last Reconnoissance of the War Balloon on the James River – 18
From the Wilds – 21

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, September 6, 1862 (“We have information that the Rebels have crossed the Potomac in considerable force, with a view of invading Maryland and pushing on into Pennsylvania.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday.html

Diary of Salmon P. Chase, Saturday, September 6, 1862 (“Genl. Pope came in. He expressed strong indignation against Fitz-John Porter and McClellan, who had, as he believed, prevented his success.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-saturday.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, September 6, 1862 (“I also hear we are to be transferred to Porter’s corps, and that both Pope and McDowell are relieved of their commands. Everything is in confusion at present and none can tell what will come of it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_18.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, September 6, 1862 (“Marched through Georgetown and Washington to the outskirts of Washington towards Leesboro Road, a very dusty, hot, oppressive day”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_7.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, September 6, 1862 (“We suppose we are to meet the invasion threatened by the Rebels into Maryland.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_8.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, September 6, 1862 (“We suppose we are destined for the defense of Maryland, but don’t know. Being with General Burnside, you can keep the run of us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_9.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, September 6, 1862 (“our good honest old President has told a new story apropos of the occasion, and the land is ringing with the wisdom of the rail-splitting Solomon.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_8.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 6, 1862 (“We have authentic accounts of our army crossing the Potomac without opposition.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_50.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: September 6, 1862 (Memorializing Willy Preston)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston_19.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: September 6, 1862 (The Morgans searching for lodgings once again.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-sarah-morgan-september-6-1862.html

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The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War, Chief Editor, Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito

Continued from September 5 (reply #49).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4089419/posts#49

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Continued from September 3 (reply #41).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4089419/posts#41

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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Continued from August 31 (reply #17).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4089419/posts#17

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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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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Continued from September 4 (reply #45).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4089419/posts#45

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, September 7, 1862 (Court intrigue in the Lincoln administration – two items.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-september.html

Diary of Salmon P. Chase, Sunday, September 7, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-sunday.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, September 7, 1862 (Lt. Col. Hayes gets on the wrong side of Gen. Reno.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_10.html

Major Wilder Dwight: September 7, 1862 (“It has come back to McClellan! I must hope, though I know not why.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/major-wilder-dwight-september-7-1862.html

Captain William M. Duncan to Mary Morgan Duncan, September 7, 1862 (“War has destroyed every thing in its way, houses [tenantless], fences burned, and orchards destroyed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/captain-william-m-duncan-to-mary-morgan.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 7, 1862 (“We see by the Northern papers that Pope claimed a great victory over Lee and Jackson!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_97.html

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, September 7, 1862 (Court intrigue in the Lincoln administration – two items.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-september.html

Diary of Salmon P. Chase, Sunday, September 7, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-sunday.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, September 7, 1862 (Lt. Col. Hayes gets on the wrong side of Gen. Reno.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_10.html

Major Wilder Dwight: September 7, 1862 (“It has come back to McClellan! I must hope, though I know not why.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/major-wilder-dwight-september-7-1862.html

Captain William M. Duncan to Mary Morgan Duncan, September 7, 1862 (“War has destroyed every thing in its way, houses [tenantless], fences burned, and orchards destroyed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/captain-william-m-duncan-to-mary-morgan.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 7, 1862 (“We see by the Northern papers that Pope claimed a great victory over Lee and Jackson!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_97.html

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Today’s posts:

West Point Atlas map of Antietam and “Lee,” reply #4
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #5
“Lincoln,” #6
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #7
U.S. Grant, #8
George Templeton Strong, #9
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #10

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Continued from September 7 (reply #4).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, September 8, 1862 (Welles describes a substantive conversation he had with President Lincoln.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-september.html

Diary of Salmon P. Chase, Monday, September 8, 1862 (Chase most interested in military affairs.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-monday.html

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Edwin M. Stanton, September 8, 1862 – 12:30 p.m. (Iowa Governor alerts War Sec. to the state’s Indian emergency.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-edwin-m.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Governor Andrew G. Curtin, September 8, 1862 – 4:30 p.m. (“We have no troops in Washington or Baltimore to send to Harrisburg,”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/edwin-m-stanton-to-governor-andrew-g.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, September 8, 1862 (“Hooker has been placed in command of McDowell’s corps, to which we belong, and Burnside has been placed in Pope’s position as commander of an army.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_19.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, September 8, 1862 (“Men from Ohio all in a talk about General Reno’s abusive language. It is said that when talking with me he put his hand on his pistol”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_11.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, September 8, 1862 (Hayes tells Uncle Sardis about his encounter with General Reno.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_12.html

John L. Motley to Anna Lothrop Motley., September 8, 1862 (“Our latest news leaves the Union army concentrating on the Rappahannock, with McClellan uniting his forces with Pope and Burnside.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/john-l-motley-to-anna-lothrop-motley.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: September 8, 1862 (“The Rebels are in Frederick, Jamestown and Poolesville. There’s no hope of our cutting them off because they never go anywhere without leaving means of retreat, and we are so slow we never catch anybody.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell_10.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, September 8, 1862 (“Last evening I attended a German Reformed church in Frederick City.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 8, 1862 (“Some of our divisions have touched the soil of Pennsylvania.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_59.html

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Continued from September 8 (reply #13).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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See excerpt from “Lee” at reply #16

Diary of Salmon P. Chase, Tuesday, September 9, 1862 (“Went to President’s to attend Cabinet Meeting, but there was only a talk. I proposed the creation of a Department beyond the Mississippi and that Clay be placed in command”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-tuesday.html

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, September 9, 1862 (“One Regiment of the Free Colored Brigade is full, and about 500 more are already enlisted. Surgeons and officers speak highly of the physical qualities of the men. Most of them are a very light color, and, I believe, will make good soldiers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/george-s-denison-to-salmon-p-chase.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, September 9, 1862 (“Marched about eight miles in a westerly direction through a fine-looking, well-improved region. Men very jolly.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_13.html

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, September 9, 1862 (“I am half sick, very sad, grieved, and troubled on your account, yet very thankful for the wonderful preservation of your life through so many dangers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/elizabeth-adams-lusk-to-captain-william_10.html

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: September 9, 1862 (“The enemy has been reinforced and now they say they intend to march on Philadelphia and New York”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-josephine-shaw-lowell_11.html

John Watts De Peyster Sr. to Oliver S. Halstead Jr., September 9, 1862 (Gen. De Peyster feeling gloomy about the war situation)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/john-watts-de-peyster-sr-to-oliver-s.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 9, 1862 (“Lord, what a scare they are having in the North! They are calling everybody to arms for the defense of Philadelphia”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_60.html

General Robert E. Lee’s Special Orders, No. 191 (The “Lost Order”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/general-robert-e-lees-special-orders-no.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 9, 1862 (“Up to to-day nothing new. Our regiment was paid off to-day, we receiving one month’s wages-eleven dollars for a private, which I have the honor to be.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-private-louis-leon-september-9.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: Monday Night, September 8, 1862 (“We are enduring the painful suspense of waiting for the coming home of his father with the sad remains; it will be a torturing thing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-monday.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Tuesday, September 9, 1862 (“I have not been to church since Mr. Gierlow went to Europe last July. It is perfectly shocking; but the Yankees have kept me running until all pious dispositions have been shaken out of me; so they are to blame.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-sarah-morgan-tuesday-september.html

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Continued from September 9 (reply #16).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Continued from September 7 (reply #5).

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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