Harper’s Weekly – September 20, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | September 20, 1862

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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Continued from August 11 (reply #15).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4084232/posts#15

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James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

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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: Friday, September 26, 1862 (Cabinet meetings still discussing colonization of blacks – two items.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-september.html

Diary of Salmon P. Chase: Friday, September 26, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-salmon-p-chase-friday.html

Governor Andrew G. Curtin to Brigadier-General John F. Reynolds, September 26, 1862 (Curtin thanks Gen. Reynolds for his service to Pennsylvania.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/governor-andrew-g-curtin-to-brigadier.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, September 26, 1862 (“I am not suffering much. The weariness from lying abed is the chief annoyance.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_18.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, September 26, 1862 (“Lucy is here and we are pretty jolly. She visits the wounded and comes back in tears, then we take a little refreshment and get over it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/lieutenant-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_17.html

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, September 26, 1862 (“I have talked with a number of the rebel prisoners. You have no idea what innocent, inoffensive men most of them seem to be”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/captain-charles-fessenden-morse_15.html

Captain William M. Duncan to Mary Morgan Duncan, September 26, 1862 (“I am in excellent health; am heavier than I ever was before; weigh a hundred and sixty eight lbs. of nice clear meat: have outgrown all my clothes, you see that hard crackers agree with me fine.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/captain-william-m-duncan-to-mary-morgan_11.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 26, 1862 (“I pray we may soon conquer a peace with the North; but then I fear we shall have trouble among ourselves.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_3.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: September 26, 1862 (Misinformation from the north and south.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-sarah-morgan-september-26-1862.html

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Today’s posts:

“Terrible Swift Sword,” reply #39
Record of Lincoln’s dismissal of Maj. Key, #40
John Hay, #41
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #42
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #43
John Jackman, #44
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #45