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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/4129156/posts

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The Army of the Potomac – 1, 9-10
Only One Man Killed Today – 2
Charleston – 2
The French Emperor’s Policy in America – 2
The Lounger – 2-3
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Savannah – 5, 8-9
The Battle in Bayou Teche – 6, 9
Map of the Sea-Board from Fortress Monroe to Charleston, Showing the Field of Operations of the New Southern Expedition – 7
Foreign News – 8
The Battle of Murfreesboro – 9, 16
Recaptured: A Story of St. Valentine’s Day – 9
Stonewall Jackson’s Camp – 9, 15
Counterparts: From the German of Heine – 11
The **** in the Closet: Passages Extracted from the Journal of the Baron Delaunay – 11-13
White Elephants – 13-14
Generals Couch and Butterfield – 14, 17
“A Dark Night’s Work,” by Charles Reade, Ch. VI – 17-18
A Soldier’s Valentine – 18
Jim Crow Jumping About So – 20

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Continued from January 20 (reply #19).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4123944/posts#19

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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, February 14, 1863 (“The New York Tribune of yesterday has an allusion to correspondence between Seward and myself relative to the British-African Slave Treaty, which indicates a purpose to get us by the ears.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday.html

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, February 14, 1863 (Praise from Gen. Burnside for Curtis’s half-brother Col. Joseph B. Curtis, KIA at Fredericksburg.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/george-william-curtis-to-charles-eliot.html

General Joseph E. Johnston to Senator Louis T. Wigfall, February 14, 1863 (Gen. Johnston defends the performance of the Army of Tennessee at Murfreesboro.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/general-joseph-e-johnston-to-senator_24.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, February 14, 1863 (“If we are spared, I trust an ever-kind Providence will enable us to be together all winter.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_14.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 14, 1863 (“We must have peace soon, or a famine.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_15.html

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

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Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 15, 1863 (“I got a note from Hooker, saying he could spare me for seven days and telling me to apply.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_19.html

Captain Charles Russell Lowell to Henry Lee Higginson, February 15, 1863 (“The New England Loyal Publication Society and the 54th Massachusetts.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/captain-charles-russell-lowell-to-henry.html

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse, February 14, 1863 (“I have been appointed Provost Marshal of the corps, and shift my quarters to-morrow to General [Henry W.] Slocum’s headquarters.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/captain-charles-fessenden-morse_29.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 15, 1863 (Col. Willard Dickerman of the 103rd Illinois is having problems getting company commanders appointed.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-february.html

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, February 16, 1863 (The failings of Adm. DuPont.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-february_12.html

Brigadier-General James A. Garfield to Burke A. Hinsdale, February 16, 1863 (On Gen. Burnside.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-james-garfield-to.html

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 16, 1863 (“Brig. Gen. Stephenson [is] under arrest and to be sent to Washington for asserting that he would rather the Union cause should be lost than be saved by black soldiers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_2.html

Captain Robert Gould Shaw to Francis G. Shaw, February 16, 1863 (“We go into camp at Readville. We have a great deal of work before us. The pay is thirteen dollars per month, the same as white soldiers receive.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/captain-robert-gould-shaw-to-francis-g.html

John M. Forbes to Congressman Charles B. Sedgwick, February 16, 1863 (“I am busy, besides the Second Cavalry, in raising a negro regiment”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/john-m-forbes-to-congressman-charles-b.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 16, 1863 (“Gen. Lee is now sending troops to Charleston, and this strengthens the report that Hooker’s army is leaving the Rappahannock.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_17.html

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, February 17, 1863 (On correspondence between the President and Fernando Wood.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-february.html

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 17, 1863—Evening (Lament on the lack of will in the north to end slavery.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly.html

Letter from Dr. Miller (Letter to the editor from an Iowa man in Louisiana.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/10/letter-from-dr-miller.html

George William Curtis to John J. Pinkerton, February 17, 1863 (Curtis is optimistic that the Union will be preserved.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/george-william-curtis-to-john-j.html

John L. Motley to Mary Lothrop Motley, February 17, 1863 (Life in Vienna and growing European support for the Union cause.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/john-l-motley-to-mary-lothrop-motley.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 17, 1863 (“Gen. Lee is not sending troops to Charleston. He is sending them here for the defense of Richmond”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_18.html

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Continued from January 19 (Reply #13). Horace Greeley’s peace efforts have inadvertently “made the opposition urge on the war.” See 2nd page below.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4123944/posts#13

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from February 1 (reply #5).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127328/posts#5

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, February 18, 1863 (“Have a long dispatch from Admiral Porter relative to operations on the Mississippi”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-wednesday_15.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: February 18, 1863 (Col. Hayes had a visit from the wife and kids.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, February 18, 1863 (“I say with the press unfettered as now we are defeated to the end of time.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/12/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_11.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 18, 1863 (Rumor that part of Grant’s army will be sent to Illinois to guard against copperheadism.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-february_8.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 18, 1863 (“By degrees, quite perceptible, we are approaching the condition of famine.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_19.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Wednesday, February 18, 1863 (“Gibbes has gone back to his regiment. I can’t say how dreary I felt when he came to tell me good-bye.”)

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, February 19, 1863 (“The President on Tuesday expressed a wish that Captain Dahlgren should be made an admiral, and I presented to-day both his and Davis’s names.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday_16.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: February 19, 1863 (“[Companies] G and B marched to Loup Creek to take steamboat to Charleston; the rest to go soon.” Plus fishing news.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_17.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 19, 1863 (“Major-Gen. Pickett’s division marched through the city to-day for Drewry’s Bluff. Gen. Lee writes that this division can beat the army corps of Hooker, supposed to be sent to the Peninsula.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_20.html

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Francis Lieber to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, February 20, 1863 (Lieber drew up “Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/francis-lieber-to-major-general-henry-w.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 20, 1863 (“The Queen of the West was forced to surrender. This adventure has an exhilarating effect upon our spirits.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_21.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: February 20, 1863 (McGuire’s sister describes the depredations of the Yankees on the Potomac.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_23.html