Harper’s Weekly – March 14, 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/4136261/posts

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Negroes as Soldiers – 1, 11, 19
Ode Tu the Peece-Makers – 2
The Work Done by Congress – 2
The Lounger – 2-3
Humors of the Day – 3-4
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
The Approaches to Savannah – 5-6
Major-General Hunter, U.S.A. – 6
Smith’s Bridge – 6-7
Foreign News – 8
The Bewitching Widow – 8-10
Life’s Answer – 12
“A Dark Night’s Work,” by Charles Reade, Ch. IX-XI – 12-14
Great Union Meeting at Exeter Hall – 14-16
Sad Misadventure of the Copperhead Delegation to Richmond – 15
The Rebel General Lee – 17, 19-20
The Rebel General Stonewall Jackson – 17, 20
The Wrath of Mistress Elizabeth Gwynne – 18-19

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Continued from February 2 (reply #11).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127328/posts#11

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from March 11 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4136261/posts#13

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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

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Salmon P. Chase to John M. Forbes, March 14, 1863 (“Oblige me by coming to New York, Fifth Avenue Hotel, to-night. I desire to confer with you on important business immediately. Answer.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/salmon-p-chase-to-john-m-forbes-march.html

Acting Rear Admiral David D Porter to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, March 14, 1863 (Adm. Porter wants to give a lady passage to the north.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/10/acting-rear-admiral-david-d-porter-to.html

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, March 14, 1863 (“My corps is alone here at the neck opposite Vicksburg, fighting off the water of the Mississippi which threatens to drown us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/12/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_15.html

Diary of Colonel William F. Bartlett: Saturday, March 14, 1863 (The 49th Massachusetts on the march to Port Hudson.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-colonel-william-f-bartlett_27.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, March 14, 1863 (“The time has about come for campaigning, and I hope early next week to leave my room, and go into a tent near Hamilton’s Crossing”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_18.html

Colonel George A. Stone to Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, March 14, 1863 (Regarding the death of an adjutant obviously known to Gov. Kirkwood.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/colonel-george-stone-to-governor-samuel.html

Captain Charles Fessenden Morse: March, 14, 1863 (“I am fully disposed to give General Hooker credit for every good thing he does”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/captain-charles-fessenden-morse-march.html

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: March 14, 1863 (The 1st Louisiana at Port Hudson)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-sergeant-george-g-smith-march_13.html

From Corinth (Anti-Copperhead letter to the editor from an Iowa soldier)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/10/from-corinth.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 14, 1863 (“Gen. Lee is hopeful; and so long as we keep the field, and he commands, the foe must bleed for every acre of soil they gain.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-14.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 14, 1863 (“This battle is called the Battle of Deep Gully, as it was fought on that stream.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-14.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Saturday, March 14, 1863, 5 o’clock P.M. (“They are coming! The Yankees are coming at last! For four or five hours the sound of their cannon has assailed our ears. There! — that one shook my bed!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-saturday-march-14.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #3
U.S. Grant, #4
George Templeton Strong, #5
Links to 12 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Continued from February 22 (reply #4).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4132663/posts#4

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

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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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Congressman William B. Allison to Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, March 15, 1863 (Gov. Kirkwood has been appointed Minister to Denmark.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/congressman-william-b-allison-to.html

Major General George G. Meade to John Sergeant Mead, March 15, 1863 (“I am obliged to go up to Washington to-day, to appear before the “Committee on the Conduct of the War.” I have no idea what they want me for”)

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

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, March 15, 1863 (The 23rd Ohio still taking it easy.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_28.html

Diary of Colonel William F. Bartlett: March 15, 1863 (The Battle of Port Hudson didn’t quite come off.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-colonel-william-f-bartlett_29.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 15, 1863 (The town of Lagrange, TN has been picked clean by the Yankees.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-march-15.html

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: Sunday, March 15, 1863 (Eye-witness account of the naval battle of Port Hudson.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-sergeant-george-g-smith-sunday.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 15, 1863 (“Another cold, disagreeable day. March so far has been as cold and terrible as a winter month.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-15.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 15, 1863 (“Laid here all day, with two crackers for our rations, and these we got at night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-15.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: March 15, 1863 (“Richmond was greatly shocked on Friday, by the blowing up of the Laboratory, in which women, girls, and boys were employed making cartridges; ten women and girls were killed on the spot, and many more will probably die from their wounds.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_85.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday Morning, March 15, 1863, Half-past One o’clock A.M. (“I thought I had heard a bombardment before; but Baton Rouge was child’s play compared to this.”)

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

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday Morning, March 15, 1863 (“To my unspeakable surprise, I waked up this morning and found myself alive.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-sunday-morning_23.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday Morning, March 15, 1863 – Later (“It was, as we presumed, the batteries and gunboats. One we sunk; another, the Mississippi, we disabled so that the Yankees had to abandon and set fire to her”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-sunday-morning_6.html

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Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #8
John G. Nicolay, #9
George Templeton Strong, #10
Links to 12 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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Continued from January 11 (reply #6). Gen. Washburn wrote “I fear Grant won’t do” on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4122199/posts#6

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Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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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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Edwin M. Stanton to the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, March 16 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/edwin-m-stanton-to-robert-dale-owen-et.html

Gideon Welles to William H. Aspenwall & John M. Forbes, March 16, 1863 (Instructions on buying ships in England.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/gideon-welles-to-john-m-forbes-march-16.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Walter Smith, March 16, 1863 (“General Grant and General Sherman have done everything for me they could — will do anything I ask that they can do.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_12.html

Diary of Colonel William F. Bartlett: Monday, March 16, 1863 (“Over at [Gen. Christopher] Augur’s quarters in the afternoon. They blame Farragut for stopping to fight their batteries, instead of pushing directly by.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-colonel-william-f-bartlett_3.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 16, 1863 (“Gen. Hill is moving toward Newbern, N. C, and may attack the enemy there.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-16.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 16, 1863 (“We had to get out and lift the cart and donkey to dry ground again. Thus ends the march and fight at Deep Gully.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-16.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #13
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #14
George Templeton Strong, #15
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #16

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

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Continued from March 16 (reply #14).

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

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Continued from March 15 (reply #8).

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