Harper’s Weekly – January 24, 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/4123944/posts

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Major-General William T. Sherman – 1, 17-18
Brigadier-General Alvin P. Hovey – 1, 18
The First Waits: A Meditation For All – 2
The New Orleans Market – 2
The Wreck of the “Monitor” – 2, 16-17
Our New Serial: A Dark Night’s Work – 2
The Opening of the Mississippi – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
The Bird of Freedom and the Black Bird – 5
Foreign News – 5
The Army of the Potomac – 6-8
No Name, by Wilkie Collins, Ch. III-IV – 8-11
Emancipation – 11-12
Method – 11
“A Dark Night’s Work,” by Elizabeth Gaskell, Ch. I-III – 13-16
The Slave-Pen at New Orleans – 16, 19
Exodus of Rebel Women – 17-18
In the Hospital – 18-20
Curiosities of Sleep – 20-21
A New Plan to frighten Fine Old English Gentlemen – 22
Reception of the “Brute Butler” by the Ladies of the North – 23

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, January 24, 1863 (Porter court martial, change of commander of the AoP, and several other topics.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-january_28.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, January 24, 1863 (“It is raining to-day. The soldiers keep in their tents, some reading, some writing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_15.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 24, 1863 (“In the New Jersey Legislature petitions are flowing in denunciatory of Lincoln’s Emancipation scheme, which would cast into the free States a large excess of profitless population.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_14.html

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Amazing how little propaganda changes over 160 years.

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Continued from December 29, 1862 (reply #18.)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4119128/posts#18

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Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from January 17 (reply #4).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4123944/posts#4

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

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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 William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, January 25, 1863 (“So here we are again, but not a word of Banks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/12/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_5.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Webb, January 25, 1863 (“Lucy with Birch and Webb arrived here last night safe and sound. We shall enjoy the log-cabin life very much”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, January 25, 1863 (“The soldier’s prayer is for action; yes, give us action, for action gives vigor to life, and value to being.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_35.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 25, 1863 (“Gen. [Gabriel] Rains has invented a new primer for shell, which explodes when a horse or a man treads upon it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_15.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #7
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #8
John G. Nicolay, #9
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #10

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

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

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Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 26, 1863 (“This war will never be terminated until one side or the other has been well whipped, and this result cannot be brought about except by fighting.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_11.html

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 26, 1863 – 9 p.m. (“at 6 P. M., found an order awaiting me, announcing Major General Hooker as in command of the Army of the Potomac and Major General Meade in command of the Centre Grand Division.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_13.html

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, January 26, 1863 (“The New York papers will state that the “Harriet Lane” has escaped from Galveston and gone to sea. This is not true.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/06/george-s-denison-to-salmon-p-chase_27.html

John Stuart Mill to John L. Motley, January 26, 1863 (“a decided movement in your favor has begun among the public since it has been evident that your government is really in earnest about getting rid of slavery.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/john-stuart-mill-to-john-l-motley.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, January 26, 1863 (“This morning our regiment together with the 27th Ohio, 81st Ohio, 7th Iowa and the 52nd Illinois are ordered to escort a forage train to Hamburg Landing and return.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/09/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_42.html

General Joseph E. Johnston to Senator Louis T. Wigfall, January 26, 1863 (“The enemy is again at Vicksburg, too, in heavier force, and doubtless with a different plan — probably to attempt to attack from below instead of from the Yazoo.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/general-joseph-e-johnston-to-senator_22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 26, 1863 (“Burnside has issued an address to his army, promising them another battle immediately.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_16.html

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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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Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, January 27, 1863 (Gen. Sherman’s brother has his back in Washington.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/12/senator-john-sherman-to-major-general.html

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, January 27, 1863 (“Joe Hooker commands the army of the Potomac. Everybody appears entirely indifferent to the matter. Heroes of many defeats, we are not inclined to give gratuitous confidence to anyone.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/captain-william-thompson-lusk-to_13.html

W. E. Doster to Captain William Thompson Lusk, January 27, 1863 (“No leave granted to Capt. Lusk.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/w-e-doster-to-captain-william-thompson_17.html

Colonel Ethan Allen to Isaac N. Phelps, January 27, 1863 (Request to make Lusk Lt. Col. of a new regiment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/colonel-ethan-allen-to-isaac-n-phelps.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, January 27, 1863 (The 7th Illinois fights the mud on the way to Corinth.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/09/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_36.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 27, 1863 (“Can Savannah, and Charleston, and Wilmington be successfully defended? They may, if they will emulate the example of Vicksburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_18.html

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A passage about Seward’s esteem for Lincoln from George Templeton Strong’s diary entry for today is cited by both Doris Kearns Goodwin and David Herbert Donald.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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