Harper’s Weekly – September 13, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | September 13, 1862

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Eastern Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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Albert V. Colburn to Brigadier General George G. Meade, September 17, 1862 – 1:25 p.m. (“The commanding general directs that you temporarily assume command of Hooker’s corps, and use every effort in your power to reorganize it and make it serviceable.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/albert-v-colburn-to-brigadier-general.html

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Day of days. This is one reason why I despise the CRT and 1619 crowd. They ignore, dismiss, or downgrade the sacrifice.

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Eastern Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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Randolph B. Marcy to Brigadier General George G. Meade, September 17, 1862 – 3:10 p.m. (“The commanding general directs that you at once take command of the army corps which was under the command of General Hooker this morning.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/randolph-b-marcy-to-brigadier-general.html

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Continued from reply #38.

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Continued from reply #46.

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Continued from reply #29.

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 17, 1862 (“Everything seems to indicate the ‘breaking up’ of the armies of our enemies, as if our prayers had been answered, and the hosts of Lincoln were really to be ‘brought to confusion.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_68.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: September 17, 1862 (“Listened almost all day to the heavy cannonading of the great battle on the banks of the Antietam, anxiously guessing whether it is with us [or] our foes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_31.html

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Continued from September 17 (reply #48).

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from September 17 (reply #47).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Continued from September 13 (reply #7).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Brigadier General George G. Meade, September 18, 1862 (Report from Antietam.)

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

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, September 18, 1862 (“When General Hooker was wounded, General McClellan placed me in command of the army corps”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_22.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, September 18, 1862 (“We have authentic news that a long and sanguinary battle has been fought.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: September 18, 1862 (“Write letters to divers friends.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_11.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, September 18, 1862 (“[At] Captain Rudy’s (Jacob Rudy, merchant), Middletown, Maryland. Here I lie nursing my shattered arm, ‘as snug as a bug in a rug.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, Evening, September 18, 1862 (“We have had nearly one-half our fighting men in the Twenty-third killed or wounded.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_12.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, September 18, 1862 (“We have been cheered for the bloodshed of the past few days by the sight of a retreating foe.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_20.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 18, 1862 (“To-day, in response to the President’s proclamation, we give thanks to Almighty God for the victories He has blessed us with.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_85.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 18, 1862 (“We arrived in Petersburg at 5 P.M. Saw several friends there. Left Petersburg at 8 o’clock that night in cars for Wakefield.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-private-louis-leon-september_78.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire: September 18, 1862 (“Thanksgiving-day for our victories!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_11.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #50
“Lee,” #51
U.S. Grant, #52
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #53

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Continued from September 18 (reply #50).

Bruce Catton, Terrible Swift Sword

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Continued from September 18 (reply #52).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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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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Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, September 19, 1862 (“Am vexed and disturbed by tidings from the squadron off Mobile. Preble, by sheer pusillanimous neglect, feebleness, and indecision, let the pirate steamer Oreto run the blockade.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-september.html

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Friday, September 19, 1862 (Chase is not impressed by Gen. Halleck’s performance.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-friday.html

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, September 19, 1862 (Andrew Jackson Hamilton wants to raise a brigade of Union troops in Texas.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/george-s-denison-to-salmon-p-chase_24.html

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: September 19, 1862 (“Begin to mend a little.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-lieutenant-colonel-rutherford_13.html

Captain Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, September 19, 1862 (“Had Harper’s Ferry not been yielded, this battle would not have been fought”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/captain-charles-russell-lowell-to-john.html

Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, September 19, 1862 (“Dr. Revere is killed, — also poor Wilder Dwight”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/captain-charles-russell-lowell-to-anna_23.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 19, 1862 (“The rumor that our invincible Stonewall Jackson had been sent by Lee to Harper’s Ferry, and had taken it, is True.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_49.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 19, 1862 (“laid in the woods without shelter and it raining very hard. Therefore did not need to wash myself in the morning.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-private-louis-leon-september_69.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #55
U.S. Grant,” #56
John Jackman, #57
Johnny Green, #58
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #59