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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/4134481/posts

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The Late Nicholas Longworth – 1-3
Who Are Our Enemies in England? – 3
The Lounger – 3-5
Humors of the Day – 5
Domestic Intelligence – 5
Foreign News – 5
Paying the Teamsters – 6, 8
The United States Gun-Boat “Indianola” (Iron-Clad) Running the Blockade at Vicksburg – 7
How a Free People Conduct a Long War: A Chapter from English History – 8-10
The Battle of Vicksburg – 11-12
“A Dark Night’s Work,” by Charles Reade, Ch. IX – 12-14
The Blaney’s Courtship – 14
Affairs in New Orleans – 15-18
The “Arkansas Traveler” – 18
Vicksburg and Its Vicinity – 19
The Court of the Water-Lily – 20-21
Design for a Modern Historical Picture – 21

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday Night, March 7, 1863 (“I feel I have been overtasked and am much exhausted. Must have rest.”)

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

Major-General John A. Dix to Abraham Lincoln, March 7, 1863 (Dix protests to the President that Union Admiral Samuel Lee is blockading a Union fort.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/major-general-john-dix-to-abraham.html

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 7, 1863 (Meade comrades and a “bill amalgamating the two corps of Engineers”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_23.html

Colonel William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, Saturday, March 7, 1863 (Bartlett leads a mile-long force escorting a wagon train on a firewood fetching mission.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/colonel-william-f-bartlett-to-harriett_23.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 7, 1863 (“I wouldn’t feel half as badly over it all if our people at home would quit their wicked copperheadism and give us the support and encouragement they should”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-march-7.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, March 7, 1863 (“There is a good deal of religious interest in the army.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_16.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 7, 1863 (“The President is sick, and has not been in the Executive Office for three days.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-7.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 William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, Sunday, March 8, 1863 (The commander of the 49th Massachusetts gets tasty meals.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/colonel-william-f-bartlett-to-harriett.html

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 8, 1863 (The 1st SC INF Colored is anchored at the mouth of the St. John’s River, before proceeding to Jacksonville.)

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

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 8, 1863 (Conscription related issues in the Confederate War Department.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-8.html

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Continued from February 3 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127328/posts#13

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, March 9, 1863 (Welles met with a Senator with whom he had a disagreement.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-march-9.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, March 9, 1863 (“The new conscript act strikes me as the best thing yet, if it is only used.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_22.html

Colonel William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, March 9, 1863 (“Orders to move at once, with two days’ cooked and five uncooked rations. No baggage or tents; sixty rounds of ammunition per man. I don’t know where we are going, I suppose Port Hudson.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/colonel-william-f-bartlett-to-harriett_7.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 9, 1863 (“We leave here again in the morning for the Grange. Ordered to report there immediately to relieve a regiment, the 6th Iowa, which is going down the river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-march-9.html

John Bright to John L. Motley, March 9, 1863 (Interesting letter regarding English feeling about America.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/01/john-bright-to-john-l-motley-march-9.html

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, March 9, 1863 (Speculation on post-war party politics.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 9, 1863 (“The Northern papers have reports of the fall of Vicksburg and Charleston. Unfounded. They also say 22,000 men have deserted from the Army of the Potomac. This is probably true.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-9.html

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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, March 10, 1863 (Welles and Sec. of State Seward don’t see eye to eye on letters of marque.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-march-10.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Walter Smith, March 10, 1863 (It doesn’t sound like the Vicksburg canal digging is yielding favorable results.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_11.html

Major General Ulysses S. Grant to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, March 10, 1863 (“McPherson is one of my best men, and is fully to be trusted. Sherman stands in the same category. In these two men I have a host.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/11/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_13.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 10, 1863 (“It has been ascertained that Hooker’s army is still near the Rappahannock, only some 20,000 or 30,000 having been sent to the Peninsula and to Suffolk. No doubt he will advance as soon as the roads become practicable.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-10.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Tuesday, March 10, 1863 (The Morgans are still in Louisiana. What of their planned move to Georgia?)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-tuesday-march-10.html

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Continued from January 14 (reply #20). Sunset Cox wrote his letter to the New York World on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4122199/posts#20

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from February 4 (reply #18).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127328/posts#18

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, March 11, 1863 (The Northern Democrats and their dilemma.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/george-william-curtis-to-charles-eliot_25.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: March 11, 1863 (“Had a note yesterday from Gen. Jackson. He is quite absorbed now in trying to provide chaplains for his army.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-march.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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, March 12, 1863 (“Had a letter from Chief Engineer [Alban C.] Stimers last night. Says the attack on Charleston will be delayed”)

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

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 12, 1863 (“You will see by the papers that we have all been confirmed, with the dates of our appointment.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_24.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 12, 1863 (“The resignation of Gen. [Robert] Toombs is making some sensation in certain circles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-12.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 12, 1863 (“I saw Gen. D. H. Hill on the road and spoke to him, as well as his adjutant.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-12.html

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

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Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 13, 1863 (Generals Hooker and Sickles are attending grand balls. Gen. Meade not invited.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_27.html

Brigadier-General Lorenzo Thomas to Governor Nathaniel S. Berry, March 13, 1863 (A New Hampshire officer has been dismissed from service for promoting the rebel cause.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/brigadier-general-lorenzo-thomas-to.html

Diary of Colonel William F. Bartlett: Friday, March 13, 1863 (“Grover’s Division has started. We shall start to-morrow.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-colonel-william-f-bartlett.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 13, 1863 (“In a large room of one of the government laboratories an explosion took place, killing instantly five or six persons”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-13.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 13, 1863 (Skirmishing 8 miles from Newbern.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-13.html