Harper’s Weekly – November 29, 1862

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | November 29, 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/4111036/posts

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General Burnside – 1-2
Notice: No “No Name” this week – 2
On to Richmond Once More! – 2-3
Our Foreign Relations – 3
The Public Credit – 3
The Lounger – 3-5
Humors of the Day – 4-5
Domestic Intelligence – 5
Another Diplomatic Mess – 5
Foreign News – 5
The Army of the Potomac – 6-7, 11, 18
McClellan’s Parting from His Army – 8, 10-12
Iron-Clads – 9-10
The Sympathetic Temperament, by E. Bulwer Lytton – 11, 13
Past, Present, Future – 13
Taken by Strategy: A Thanksgiving Love Story – 13-14
In the Moonlight Long Ago – 14
The Tenant of the Lumber-Room – 14-16
Only – 16
Old Mother Buchanan at Wheatland – 16
Thanksgiving in Camp – 17
Reginald Marsden’s Atonement – 19-21

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Continued from November 27 (reply #20).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4111036/posts#20

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Saturday, November, 29, 1862 (Sen. Browning would seem to blame his defeat in the recent election on the Emancipation Proclamation.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/diary-of-orville-hickman-browning.html

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, November 29, 1862 (New Orleans status report from the Collector of the Treasury Department.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/01/george-s-denison-to-salmon-p-chase.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 29, 1862 (“Beware, Mr. [James] Seddon! The President is a little particular concerning his prerogatives; and by the advice you now give, you stand or fall.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_19.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: November 29, 1862 (On the problems of refugees from Fredericksburg.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_6.html

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The Passaic ironclad testing its weapons on the cliffs of the Palisades. The Palisades are the cliffs on the western bank of the Hudson across the river from Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. The George Washington Bridge is located on the southern end of the Palisades. It marked the point where what would become North America separated from the rest of the super continent Pangaea.

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Wow. I had no idea those iron-clad’s guns were that powerful.

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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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Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, November 30, 1862 (Gen. Meade wants son George to serve with his regiment before getting a staff position.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_133.html

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, November 30, 1862 (Capt. Morse describes a pair of forays to Shepherdstown, VA. During the first one of Jeb Stuart’s officers was killed.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/captain-charles-fessenden-morse_18.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 30, 1862 (“From all sections of the Confederacy complaints are coming in that the military agents of the bureaus are oppressing the people; and the belief is expressed by many, that a sentiment is prevailing inimical to the government itself.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_20.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: November 30, 1862 (“Burnside, with the “greatest army on the planet,” is quietly waiting and watching our little band on the opposite side. Is he afraid to venture over? His “On to Richmond” seems slow.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_7.html

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Continued from November 8 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4107183/posts#3

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from November 29 (reply #3).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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John L. Motley to Mary Lothrop Motley, December 1862 (Minister Motley writes to his daughter of the recent election in America.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/john-l-motley-to-mary-lothrop-motley.html

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/abraham-lincolns-second-annual-message.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: December 1, 1862 (Col. Hayes is glad to be back with his regiment – the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, December 1, 1862 (Winter quarters in W. VA.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_2.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: December 1, 1862 (“To-day Lieutenant J. L. Ring having recovered from his wound received in the battle of Corinth, returns to the Regiment and assumes command of his company.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/07/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_20.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Monday, December 1, 1862 (“I shall turn Quaker after this war, in one sense, and strive to convince the world that war is the worst remedy for evils ever invented — and Man the most dangerous animal ever created.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-monday.html

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“Lee” excerpt at reply #11.

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

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Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 2, 1862 (“Hooker is very anxious for a move and is talking very freely about our delay.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_18.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, December 2, 1862 (The trip from Ohio back to the 23rd Regiment in western Virginia.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, December 2, 1862 (“Other regiments are on all the roads leading into “Dixie,” leaving us very little guard duty to do. A great relief in winter. . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 2, 1862 (“The Chief of Ordnance is ordering arms and ammunition to Gen. Pemberton, in Mississippi. This indicates a battle in the Southwest.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: December 1 & 2, 1862 (“We moved into our winter quarters. They are very good and strong. There are ten men in each hut.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-private-louis-leon-december-1.html

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Continued from July 13 (reply #16)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4077834/posts#16

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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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 Gideon Welles: Tuesday, December 3, 1862 (Nine-year-old Hubert Welles has died, the 6th child of Gideon and Mary Ann Welles to die in childhood.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-december.html

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 3, 1862 (Gen. and Mrs. Meade are conducting a lively correspondence about Gen. McClellan.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/brigadier-general-george-g-meade-to_19.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Wednesday, December 3, 1862 (“So difficult it is with the best intentions and no motive to deceive, to get the truth of these battle incidents even from eyewitnesses.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_7.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: December 3, 1862 (The 103rd Illinois Infantry may be in for a fight but a junior line officer has no way of getting good information.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-december-3.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, December 3, 1862 (Capt. Lusk thinks he would have “more congenial companions” in the regular army if he could get a transfer out of the 79th NY Volunteers.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to.html

William Cullen Bryant to John Bigelow, December 3, 1862 (“The English have lost more ground in public opinion in America within the past year and a half than they can redeem in a century.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/william-cullen-bryant-to-john-bigelow.html

William Cullen Bryant to R. H. Dana, Esq., December 3, 1862 (Bryant thanks Dana for translating 3 poems into French.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/william-cullen-bryant-to-r-h-dana-esq.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 3, 1862 (“[Gen. Lee] says several thousand of his men are barefoot! He suggests that shoes be taken from the extortioners at a fair price.”

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_26.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: December 3, 1862 (“Katz and myself went to Petersburg to-day. The headache we had next day was caused by too much whiskey.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-private-louis-leon-december-3.html

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Re the first item above - Mrs Welles is Mary Jane Hale Welles, not Mary Ann.

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes