Harper’s Weekly – January 17, 1863

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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/4122199/posts

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The Army of the Potomac – 1-2, 6
By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation – 2-3
Have We a General Among Us? – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Execution of the Minnesota Indians – 7, 11
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. I (cont.)-II – 7-11
Cutting His Old Associates – 11
The War in the Border States – 12-13
Map of Vicksburg, Miss., Showing the Field of Operations of General Sherman – 13
Map of the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee – 13
General John M’Neil – 13-14, 18
Brigadier-General James G. Blunt, of Kansas – 14, 18-19
Map of Mississippi, Showing the Field of Operations of Generals Sherman, Grant and Banks – 15
General Banks at New Orleans – 16-18
The Grave Beneath the Willow – 19
Trifles – 19-20
A Christmas Carol for 1862 – 20

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Continued from January 10 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4122199/posts#3

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Continued from January 11 (reply #8). Sherman’s letter to John Sherman cited in the first paragraph below was written on this date. It is among today’s items at Civil War Notebook.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4122199/posts#8

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

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

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Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, January 17, 1863 (“. . . The gun boats were handled beautifully, and without them we should have had hard work, with them it was easy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/12/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_4.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, January 17, 1863 (“How I would love to see the little darling, whom I love so tenderly, though I have never seen her”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_10.html

Diary Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday Evening, January 17, 1863 (“My open shake roof let the snow through in clouds; felt like sitting by my fire with an umbrella over me. Read Victor Hugo’s new book, “Les Miserables.” Good, very.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_30.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, January 17, 1863 (“Still cold and blustery. No mail—no papers—no light. All dark, there is certainly something wrong.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_78.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 17, 1863 (“Gen. Lee has left the city. His troops, encamped thirty miles north of Richmond, marched northward last night. So it is his determination to cross the Rappahannock?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_3.html

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Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One,” reply #3
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #4
Lincoln message to Congress, #5
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Continued from January 12 (reply #13, first excerpt.)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4122199/posts#13

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from January 16 (reply #28).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4122199/posts#28

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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Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 18, 1863 (“I believe it is Burnside’s intention to make another attempt to dislodge the enemy on the opposite side, but profitting by the experience gained in the last effort, he is determined this time to proceed cautiously and securely”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_9.html

Diary Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, January 18, 1863 (“Rode over to see Captain Simmonds about the Rebel mail supposed to run from Charleston via Lick or Rich Creek above Gauley, across Gauley River to Lewisburg Pike.”)

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

Elizabeth Adams Lusk to Captain William Thompson Lusk, January 18, 1863 (“New-York is full of Southern people in full sympathy with the South, bitter in word and action, and my blood often boils with indignation though I keep usually a quiet tongue.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/elizabeth-adams-lusk-to-captain-william.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, January 18, 1863 (“Such weather was never known in this climate, and the citizens say that it is caused by the Yankee’s superhuman agency.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_7.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 18, 1863 (“We are now, in effect, in a state of siege, and none but the opulent, often those who have defrauded the government, can obtain a sufficiency of food and raiment.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_4.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #8
“Lee,” #9
John G. Nicolay, #10
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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Continued from January 2 (reply #52).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4119128/posts?q=1&;page=51#52

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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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: Monday, January 19, 1863 (Four topics. Three naval, one army.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-january_23.html

A Private Letter from W. S. Brown, of the 6th Iowa Infantry, to the Rev. Ziba Brown of this County.

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/04/private-letter-from-w-s-brown-of-6th.html

W. E. Doster to Captain William Thompson Lusk, January 19, 1863 (Letter from the Provost Marshall’s office0

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/w-e-doster-to-captain-william-thompson.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 19, 1863 (“We have taken Springfield, Missouri.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_5.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: January 19, 1863 (“It is pleasant to see how cheerfully the girls fall into habits of economy, and occupy themselves in a way of which we never dreamed before.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_17.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Monday, January 19, 1863 (Invalid Sarah receives visitors day and night.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-sarah-morgan-monday-january-19.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Monday Night, January 19, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-sarah-morgan-monday-night.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lincoln,” reply #13
Lincoln letter to Workingmen of Manchester, #14
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #15
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #16

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Continued from January 17 (reply #3).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Continued from January 18 (reply #9).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Ping to U.S. Grant at #18.