Harper’s Weekly – March 21, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | March 21, 1863

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

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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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Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, March 26, 1863 (“Yesterday with Dr. Joe and four oarsmen rowed in his large skiff up Elk, three or four miles; caught in a wild storm of rain and sleet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_17.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 26, 1863 (“[Dispatch] that an engagement has occurred on the Yazoo, the enemy having several gun-boats sunk, the rest being driven back.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-26.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln note to Andrew Johnson, reply #21
John G. Nicolay, #22
George Templeton Strong, #23
Links to 2 items at Civil War Notebook, #24

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

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Continued from March 19 (reply #30).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4138019/posts#30

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Senator James W. Grimes to Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont, March 27, 1863 (“I regret as much as you can the failure of Congress to provide means to assist the States of Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware, to secure emancipation.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/senator-james-w-grimes-to-admiral_17.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday, March 27, 1863 (“Election yesterday in all these counties on accepting the conditions which Congress affixes to the admission as a State of West Virginia. The condition is abolition of slavery.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_18.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, March 27, 1863 (“To-night we are returned to our old camping ground and I am accepting General Grant’s hospitality, and propose to stay on board the Magnolia, his headquarters.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_13.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 27, 1863 (Pitching camp and working on the fort.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/03/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-march-27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 27, 1863 (“This is the day appointed by the President for fasting and prayers. Fasting in the midst of famine! May God save this people!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-27.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: March 27, 1863 (“’Tell them from me,’ said Mrs. D., ‘that Mr. Davis never eats on fast-day, and that as soon as he returns from church he shuts himself up in his study, and is never interrupted during the day, except on public business.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_5.html