Posted on 02/07/2023 4:54:36 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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
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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127328/posts
Continued from January 28 (reply #18). Senator Chandler of Michigan wrote in a letter that he was almost convinced that Seward was “a traitor out and out” on this date.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4125606/posts#18
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
War Department, Adjutant General’s Office: General Orders, No. 35, February 7,1863
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/12/war-department-adjutant-generals-office_27.html
Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, February 7, 1863 (“Two or three Members of the House have had an opportunity to spend their wrath on me in relation to appointment of midshipmen.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-february_5.html
Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 7, 1863 (“The blessings resulting from freedom will wash away the accursed stains of slavery and all the world will see that these are also children of God.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_4.html
Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 7, 1863 (“if the President will only suppress the paper and several others of the same stripe, and hang about 200 prominent copperhead scoundrels in the North, we may then hope that the army will once more be something like its former self.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-february-7.html
George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, February 7, 1863 (“The great military movement up the West side of the Mississippi has commenced to-day or will commence in a day or two.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/11/george-s-denison-to-salmon-p-chase.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 7, 1863 (“we are calmly awaiting the blow at Charleston, or a Savannah, or wherever it may fall. We have confidence in Beauregard.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february.html
Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, February 7, 1863 (“I send the baby a silk handkerchief. I have thought that as it is brightly colored, it might attract her attention. Remember, it is her first present from her father, and let me know if she notices it.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_13.html
Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 7, 1863 (“We got to Kinston at 4 in the afternoon, and made camp in a swamp, two and a half miles out of town.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-february-7.html
Lots of mentions of notable Victorian novelists: Elizabeth Gaskell is authoring the current serial novel, ads for works from Wilkie Collins, Trollope , Thackeray, and the queen of the Sensation novel Mary Elizabeth Braddon. I recently finished her most famous work, “Lady Audley’s Secret”, advertised for 50 cents.
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, February 8, 1863 (“Lucy says she thinks the Rebels can’t get her. I am not so sure. She rode outside of the lines four or five miles yesterday.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html
Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 8, 1863 (“This is the season for white soldiers to be well and blacks to be ill.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_65.html
Capt. Robert Gould Shaw to Annie Kneeland Hagerty Shaw, February 8, 1863 (“I have changed my mind about the black regiment. After father left, I began to think I had made a mistake in refusing Governor Andrew’s offer.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/capt-robert-gould-shaw-to-annie.html
Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, February 8, 1863 (“What do you think of the First Massachusetts Black Infantry? I suppose there is no doubt but that the regiment will be raised; one of our captains has had the offer of the colonelcy, and he has accepted it.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/captain-charles-fessenden-morse.html
George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, February 8, 1863 (“Enclosed is an order, and printed statement of a plan regulating the relations between planters and negroes.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/01/george-s-denison-to-salmon-p-chase.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 8, 1863 (“there is a feverish anxiety regarding Vicksburg. Pemberton permitted one iron-clad gun-boat to pass, and all our boats below are now at its mercy.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_7.html
Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 8, 1863 (“Wortheim and myself went uptown to get something to eat. We got corn bread and bacon. On our road back to camp we bought four more dodgers of corn bread and gave it to our mess companions”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-february-8.html
Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, February 9, 1863 (“You will be very glad to hear that Bob Shaw is to be Colonel, and Norwood Hallowell Lieutenant-Colonel of the Governor’s Negro Regiment.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/captain-charles-russell-lowell-to-anna_30.html
Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, February 9, 1863 (“All the noise about raising the blockade was mere trash of the Rebels South and their sympathizers North.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-february.html
Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 9, 1863 (“Mr. Emerson would have trembled with joy to see how much these dark colored men drank in the religion of his poem.”)
https://www.poetry.com/poem/29791/boston-hymn
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_70.html
Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 9, 1863 (“I believe that the whole regiment with a proper action of the officers for a few days, will denounce copperheadism, even in terms strong enough to suit the Chicago Tribune.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-february-9.html
John J. Cisco to George L. Stearns, February 9, 1863 (Assistant U.S. Treasurer to a recruiter for the MA negro regiments)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/01/john-j-cisco-to-george-l-stearns.html
General Robert E. Lee to [?], February 9, 1863 (“General Hooker is agitating something on the other side, or at all events is agitating his troops.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/general-robert-e-lee-to-february-9-1863.html
Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 9, 1863 (“Kinston [NC] is a perfect ruin, as the Yankees have destroyed everything they could barely touch”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-february-9.html
Diary of Sarah Morgan: Monday Night, February 9, 1863 (Sarah got a letter from her brother in the Confederate navy.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-sarah-morgan-monday-night_24.html
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 10, 1863 (Dr. Rogers is homesick. He avoids being shot by a sentry.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_42.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 10, 1863 (“To-day, in cabinet council, it is believed it was decided to call out all conscripts under forty-five years of age.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_10.html
Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 11, 1863 (“Today I have planned a new hospital and begun to lay the foundation of the first ward.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_83.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 11, 1863 (“There is a rumor that Major-Gen. Gustavus W. Smith has tendered his resignation.” And hungry rats.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_11.html
Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: February 11, 1863 (“how cruel it is that the Northern Government should have made medicines, and the necessaries of life to the sick and wounded, contraband articles!”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_20.html
Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, February 12, 1863 (“These newspaper correspondents hanging about the skirts of our army reveal all plans, and are worth a hundred thousand men to the enemy.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/12/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_8.html
Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 12, 1863—Evening (The story of a freed slave formerly owned by Florida Gov. Moseley.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_51.html
Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, February 12, 1863 (“Captain Shaw went off to go to work on his new command, the First Massachusetts Blacks. He has a hard piece of work before him, but I hope he will be entirely successful.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/captain-charles-fessenden-morse_15.html
General Robert E Lee to Col. G. W. Custis Lee, February 12, 1863 (“I shall feel very much obliged to [Congress] if they will pass a law relieving me from all duty and legislating some one in my place, better able to do it.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/general-robert-e-lee-to-col-g-w-custis.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 12, 1863 (“All under forty-five must be called, else the maximum of the four hundred regiments cannot be kept up.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_13.html
Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: February 12, 1863 (McGuire attends the death of an unknown soldier.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_21.html
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 13, 1863 (“The regiment, since the breaking up of the grand divisions, has been placed under Stoneman, who has command of all the cavalry.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_18.html
Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 13, 1863 (The story of former slave Cato Waring.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_3.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 13, 1863 (“it is stated that the Federal troops demand the recall of the Emancipation Proclamation. They also object to serving with negro troops.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_14.html
General Robert E. Lee to the Confederate Senate, February 13, 1863 (Gen. Lee will not put Gen. Johnston in command of the Army of Tennessee)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/general-robert-e-lee-to-confederate.html
Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 13, 1863 (“Our company has built log huts, from two to three feet high, and then put our tents over them-building a chimney to each hut or tent, and we are very comfortable.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-february-13.html
Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: February 13, 1863 (“I am afraid that our currency is rapidly depreciating, and the time is approaching when, as in the old Revolution, a man had to give $300 for a breakfast.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_22.html
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