Harper’s Weekly – February 21, 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/4130925/posts

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Tom Thumb and His Wife – 1-2
Slaves in Louisiana – 2
The Irrepressible Conflict Again – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
The Effects of the Proclamation – 5, 11
The Great Southern Expedition – 6, 11
The Fight Off Charleston – 6, 19
Foreign News – 7
The Ghost at Cedar Glen – 7-9
Going to Wilson’s Creek – 9
Hands and Hearts: A Lesson for St. Valentine’s Day – 10-11
“A Dark Night’s Work,” by Charles Reade, Ch. VII – 11-13
Ruth Holliday’s Valentine – 13-14
Attack on Fort Hindman – 14-15
The Attack on Fort M’allister – 14, 17
Our Artist “Correspondent at Large” – 16-17
“Precious” – 17-19

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Colonel William F. Bartlett: February 21, 1863 (“Any first sergeant knows, that if he should appear on guard-mounting or dress parade, with his white gloves soiled, he would have to take that lozenge out of his chevrons.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/colonel-william-f-bartlett-thursday-may.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 21, 1863 (“Major-Gen. Hood’s division passed through the city to day, and crossed over the river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_22.html

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Continued from February 18 (reply #16).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4130925/posts#16

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

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, February 22, 1863 (“Had a call from Dahlgren, who is very grateful that he is named for admiral. Told him to thank the President”)

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

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, February 22, 1863 (On Gen. Sherman and those vile reporters.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/headquarters-second-brigade-second.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 22, 1863 (“Red tape will win the day, even if our cause be lost.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_23.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: February 22, 1863 (If Washington had seen this future he wouldn’t have bothered with the Revolution.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_24.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, February 22, 1863 (It looks like the Morgans are going to Augusta, Georgia.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-sarah-morgan-sunday-february_25.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, February 22, 1863, Sunset (“Twenty-seven thousand Yankees are preparing to march on Port Hudson, and this place [Clinton, LA] will certainly be either occupied by them, or burned.”)

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

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Letter from Sherman to Mrs. Sherman at reply #5

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, February 23, 1863 (“General Halleck informs me there is a rumor via Richmond that the steamer Queen of the West has been captured.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-february_19.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 23, 1863 (Gen. Lee wants the states to do more to recruit for the army.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_24.html

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, February 23, 1863 (“The weather now is very hard upon our poor bushmen. This morning the whole country is covered with a mantle of snow fully a foot deep.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/general-robert-e-lee-to-mary-custis-lee.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: February 23, 1863 (Margaret Preston remembers her mother.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston_7.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Monday, February 23, 1863 (A Yankee attack on Port Hudson is expected. The Morgans will go to Georgia to avoid it.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-sarah-morgan-monday-february.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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See Elisha Hunt Rhodes diary entry at reply #10.

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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: Tuesday, February 24, 1863 (“At the Cabinet-meeting the President expressed uneasiness at the rumor which he had just heard that the Queen of the West was captured.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-february_20.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, February 24, 1863 (“Two of our companies have gone down the river to Charleston preparatory to moving the Twenty-third there.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_18.html

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 24, 1863 (“Colonel [James] Montgomery’s arrival from Key West, with the nucleus of the Second S. C. Vols. is an event of importance to our life here and also to the history of the war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_8.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Tuesday, February 24, 1863 (Goodbye to Louisiana for now.)

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

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Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 25, 1863 (“Henry Wortheim was sent home on a sick furlough, as he is very bad off.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-february-25.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, February 25, 1863 (Sec. Seward’s way of gathering information about army matters undermines the chain of command.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-february_21.html

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 25, 1863 (Kansas history from James Montgomery and the death of a 1st SC soldier.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_32.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 25, 1863 (“I have 11 negroes in my company now. They do every particle of the dirty work. Two women among them do the washing for the company.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-february_9.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 25, 1863 (“On the 18th inst. the enemy’s battery on the opposite side of the Mississippi River opened on Vicksburg. The damage was not great; but the front of the town is considered untenable.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_26.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Wednesday, February 25, 1863 (The move to Georgia delayed.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-wednesday.html

A Woman’s Diary Of The Siege Of Vicksburg: February 25, 1863 (“the Federal fleet has been gathering, has anchored at the bend, and shells are thrown in at intervals.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-womans-diary-of-siege-of-vicksburg_16.html

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Continued from February 14 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4130925/posts#3

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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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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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, February 26, 1863 (Meade is stuck in Washington, to his annoyance.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_21.html

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 26, 1863 (“I am sick of talking to men whose limited capacity renders it necessary for me to explain that humanity lies somewhat deeper than the integument of the human body.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_47.html

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, February 26, 1863 (“If we take Charleston and Vicksburg we conquer and trample out the Copperheads, — but if not?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william_19.html

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, February 26, 1863 (“I do not think Gen. Banks favors the enlistment of negroes. There has been some trouble about Butler’s three regiments, because most of their officers are colored, and the New England soldier could not consent to present arms to a colored officer”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/george-s-denison-to-salmon-p-chase_14.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 26, 1863 (The recently captured Queen of the West sank the Union gunboat Indianola. “We captured all the officers and men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_27.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 26, 1863 (“Two men out of our regiment were whipped for desertion. They were undressed all but pants and shoes, tied to a post, and each given thirty-nine lashes on their bare backs.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-february-26.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: February 26, 1863 (“The ‘Alabama’ continues to perform the most miraculous feats, and the ‘Florida’ seems disposed to rival her in brilliant exploits.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_27.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lee,” reply #15
William T. Sherman, #16
John G. Nicolay, #17
George Templeton Strong, #18
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #19