Harper’s Weekly – December 20, 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/4115915/posts

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The Indian Murderers in Minnesota – 1, 7
The Cost of the War – 2
The War in the Southwest – 2
The Lounger – 2-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
December – 5
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Seventh Scene, Ch II-III – 5-7
The Army of the Southwest – 7-8
Belle Plains – 7, 9
Fredericksburg, Virginia – 10
Winter – 11
Dickens’s New Christmas Story: Somebody’s Luggage – 11-19

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Continued from December 19 (reply #54).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4115915/posts?q=1&;page=51#54

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from December 19 (reply #55).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4115915/posts?q=1&;page=51#55

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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Continued from December 18 (reply #45).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4115915/posts#45

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Continued from December 14 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4115915/posts#25

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, December 20, 1862 (Welles updates his diary on the cabinet crisis – long.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday.html

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, December 20, 1862 (“Vicksburg is well fortified and is within telegraphic and railroad reach of Meridian, Mobile, Camp Moore and Grenada, where Pemberton has 30,000 to 35,000 men. Therefore don’t expect me to achieve miracles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/11/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_29.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, December 20, 1862 (“Do you believe, I have more friends in Memphis to-day, outside of the army, I mean, than I have in Cincinnati.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_30.html

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 20, 1862 (“Burnside proved that the crossing of the river had been peremptorily ordered from Washington, in the face of his opinion and of the majority of his principal officers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/major-general-george-g-meade-to_26.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, December 20, 1862 (“This battle is a set-off for Antietam. That forced the Rebels back across the Potomac. This forces us back across the Rappahannock.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_30.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, December 20, 1862 (“When will our generals learn not to attack an equal adversary in fortified positions?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_27.html

Colonel Addison Farnsworth to Captain William Thompson Lusk, December 20, 1862 (“In the event of my promotion, you can rely upon the Lieut.-Colonelcy. Keep mum on the subject.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/cololnel-addison-farnsworth-to-captain.html

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, December 20, 1862 (“The rebels have paid us off now for Antietam. No one seems to have any idea what will happen next.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/captain-charles-fessenden-morse_25.html

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, Saturday, December 20, 1862 (“The sickening list of dead and wounded have been read over again and again, by mothers and sisters with tears and groans. Fathers sink their heads in anguish, and for all this distress and agony, we have gained nothing.”)

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

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, December 20, 1862 (“We are now in the rear of Jackson, Tennessee, a town on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, which the rebels, it is said, are trying to circumvent.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_12.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 20, 1862 (Jones wonders what’s really happening in North Carolina and Tennessee.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_24.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 20, 1862 – 9 p.m. (“During the first Revolution, the Chesapeake was frozen over. If we have a winter like that, we shall certainly have an armistice in Virginia without the intervention of any other than the Great Power above.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_25.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: December 20, 1862 (“Went uptown to-day on French leave, and when I returned was put on guard duty for going.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-december-20.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #3
“Lincoln,” #4
Lincoln letters to Thomas Henderson, Seward and Chase, #5
U.S. Grant, #6
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #7
Links to 13 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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Here is a corrected version of the excerpt at reply #4, which has 2 lines overlapped.

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Continued from December 19 (reply #53).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4115915/posts?q=1&;page=51#53

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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

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Continued from December 18 (reply #46)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4115915/posts#46

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Sunday Evening, December 21, 1862 (“I got a letter from Joel tonight. He is the Jew who got eight bullet holes in his person and limbs. He says he thinks he can stand service in a couple of months.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_31.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, December 21, 1862 (“We move from camp on quick time, the spirits of the men are up; all anticipate a fray with Forrest and his West Tennessee raiders.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_56.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 21, 1862 (“Nothing, yet, has been done by the immense Federal fleet of iron-clad gun-boats which were to devastate our coast this winter. But the winter is not over yet, and I apprehend something will be attempted.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_26.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: December 21, 1862 (“I went to the creek to wash my clothing and myself, and when I got back the water had frozen on my head so that I was obliged to hold my head by the fire so as to thaw it out.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-december-21.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
George Templeton Strong, #13
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #14
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #15

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. . . having captured on the way . . . a colonel of the 119th Illinois at Kenton Station.

Isn't that Grandpa BroJoe's outfit?

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

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Continued from December 9 (reply #18).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4114242/posts#18

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

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Congressman Charles B. Sedgwick to John M. Forbes, December 22, 1862 (On the Emancipation Proclamation and the recent cabinet crisis)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/congressman-charles-b-sedgwick-to-john.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, December 22, 1862 (“The men still busy with their quarters and all quiet in front. My health is perfect; I was never so heavy as now.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, December 22, 1862 (“Finished reading “Mysteries of Paris” last night. Not a wicked or obscene novel by a good deal.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, December 22, 1862 (“This morning General Dodge discovers that the enemy has evaded him by withdrawing hastily from Jackson and his advance.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_74.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, December 22, 1862 (“The idea of an attempt directly in the front was scouted at by those who professed to know, as sheer madness, concerning which the result could not be doubtful. Yet it was attempted”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_22.html

John L. Motley to Anna Lothrop Motley, December 22, 1862 (Motley’s account of his visit with the Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia – daughter of Queen Victoria.)

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

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Colonel John T. L. Preston, December 22, 1862 (“We call ourselves a Christian people, and it seems to me our Government may be of the same character, without committing itself with an established Church.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 22, 1862 (“Well, if we gain our independence, instead of being the vassals of the Yankees, we shall find all our wealth in the hands of the Jews.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_27.html