Harper’s Weekly – February 28, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 28, 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/4132663/posts

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Major-General Hooker – 1-2
Aour Blockade – 2
Our Financial Policy – 2
Copperheadism – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
The “Queen of the West” – 5, 15-16
Foreign News – 6
“A Dark Night’s Work,” by Charles Reade, Ch. VIII – 7-10
Our Colored Troops in Louisiana – 7-8, 19
Bear-Hunting – 10-11
Pay-Day in the Army of the Potomac – 12
The Hungarian Officer – 13-15
The Copperhead Party – In Favor of a Vigorous Prosecution of Peace! – 15
Corbin’s Neck, on the Rappahannock – 16
Skinner’s Neck, on the Rappahannock, Below Fredericksburg, Virginia – 16
Our Slavery Chart – 17-18
In the Waters Under the Earth – 18-19
Something Worth Having – 20

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Illustration by Julian Oliver Davidson - This file is from the Mechanical Curator collection

Excerpt below continued from January 31 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127328/posts#3

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Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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See excerpt from “Never Call Retreat” at previous reply.

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Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, February 28, 1863 (“I keep a blazing fire in my tent about half the time, these hot, humid days, to keep myself from moulding alive.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_79.html

General Robert E. Lee to Colonel G. W. Custis Lee, February 28, 1863 (“I have no news. We have mud up to our eyes. River very high.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/general-robert-e-lee-to-colonel-g-w_12.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: February 28, 1863 (“Howitt says that throughout Germany, wherever you see a woman, you see the “everlasting knitting;” so it is with Confederate women.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_28.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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Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, March 1, 1863 (“General Sherman will live in history, and in the hearts of his countrymen when these wretched myrmidons shall have passed to infamy and eternal death.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-eliza_9.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, March 1, 1863 (“I am much indebted to the Sisters of St. John for their prayers in my behalf, and you must so tell them from me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_10.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 1, 1863 (“soon the expense of boarding will exceed the incomes of unmarried men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-1.html

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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892) Written by Himself

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The disposition of “two pieces of artillery” was considered on this date.

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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

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Colonel William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, March 2, 1863 (Col. Bartlett and the 49th Mass. settling in at Baton Rouge.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/colonel-william-f-bartlett-to-harriett.html

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 2, 1863—Evening (“today I have examined about a hundred and discharged thirty for disability.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_6.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: March 2, 1863 (“I left England in the royal mail steamer Atrato, and arrived at St Thomas on the 17th.” Fremantle will become a character in the 1993 film “Gettysburg”.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_6.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 2, 1863 (“The enemy burnt the steamship Nashville on Saturday near Savannah.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-2.html

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Today’s posts:

“Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” reply #8
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #9
George Templeton Strong, #10
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the National Forces, and for other Purposes, March 3, 1863 (The recently passed conscription bill.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/an-act-for-enrolling-and-calling-out.html

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 3, 1863 (“The plot thickens. Our steamers are coaling up and the stores and ammunition are going aboard.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/dr-seth-rogers-to-his-daughter-dolly_23.html

Colonel William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, March 3, 1863 (“In the evening we sat out around the fire in the rear of my tent, smoking our pipes; bright moonlight; the nights are very cold, although the days are so hot.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/colonel-william-f-bartlett-to-harriett_12.html

John L. Motley to Ann Lothrop Motley, March 3, 1863 (“Meetings are held day by day all over England, in which the strongest sympathy is expressed for the United States government”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/12/john-l-motley-to-ann-lothrop-motley.html

General Robert E. Lee to Charlotte Wickham Lee, March 3, 1863 (Lee to his daughter-in-law, married to his son Fitzhugh Lee.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/general-robert-e-lee-to-charlotte_13.html

General Robert E. Lee to Colonel G. W. Custis Lee, March 3, 1863 (“Our Federal neighbors are quiet. Their balloons are up during the day watching our movements, and remain up half the night observing our camp-fires.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/general-robert-e-lee-to-colonel-g-w_13.html

General Robert E. Lee to Brigadier General Wm. H. Fitzhugh Lee, about March 3, 1863 (“Your Uncle Carter says that they had him with a gun and sword buckled to him, guarding a ford on James River during Stoneman’s last expedition.”)

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

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Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, March 4, 1863 (“The new conscription law strikes me as a capital measure. I hope it will be judiciously and firmly administered.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_21.html

Colonel William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, March 4, 1863 (“This morning orders came for a review in ‘heavy marching order,’ by General [Christopher] Augur.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/colonel-william-f-bartlett-to-harriett_10.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 4, 1863 (Lincoln is now Dictator, his Congress having given him power to call out all the male population between the ages of twenty and thirty-five years”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-4.html

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Continued from February 3 (reply #14)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127328/posts#14

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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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: Thursday, March 5, 1863 (Welles spent some time in the Capitol and reminisces about the Congress of 1829.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday-march-5.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 5, 1863 (“You certainly should not complain of my neglect, in writing no more than once in ten days while we are quartered at such an intolerably stupid place as this . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-march-5.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 5, 1863 (“Gen. Van Dorn has had a fight in Tennessee, killing and wounding 1000 and capturing 2600 prisoners. Our loss is said to have been heavy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-5.html

Dr. Spenser G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, March 5, 1863 (“A man was shot near our regiment last Sunday for desertion. It was a very solemn scene.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/dr-spenser-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother_18.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 5, 1863 (“Up to to-day there is nothing worth recording, although we are getting black as negroes on account of our burning green pine.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-5-1863.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: March 5, 1863 (Coping with the blockade and lack of income.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_29.html

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That’s so sad, about the horses. Horses went through so much in all the wars. Even in the Korean War, the U.S. Army was using pack horses. There’s a statue of one at the U.S. Equestrian Center in Ocala, FL.

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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