Harper’s Weekly – March 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/4139716/posts

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The Mother’s Letter – 1
A Better Feeling – 1-2
Our Iron-Clads in the Ogeechee – 2-3, 6, 19-20
The Wealth of Our Country – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-5
Humors of the Day – 5
Domestic Intelligence – 5
Foreign News – 5
How the Bowery Boys Amuse Themselves – 5
Jim Williams – 6
A Straggler – 6
The Princess Alexandra of Denmark – 6, 8
Bache’s Quaker – 6-7
The Army of the Potomac – 7, 13
Map of Charleston, S.C., Showing the Approaches by Land and Water, etc. – 9
How an Officer Made Love While the Enemy Made War – 10
The New Outlet to the Gulf – 10-11
“A Dark Night’s Work,” by Charles Reade, Ch. XIII-XVI – 13-16
The Late Ball at the Tuileries – 17, 19
The “George Griswold” at Liverpool – 18-19
Watch-Night – 19
The Snow-Storm at Belle Plain – 19

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Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, March 28, 1863 (“We like General Schenck but he is too distant and we prefer on that account to be restored to the Department of the Ohio under General Burnside.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/11/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, March 28, 1863 (“Today a fight between four hundred Jenkins’ or Floyd’s men and two hundred and seventy-five Thirteenth Virginia [men] at Hurricane Bridge.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_20.html

Letter from Lieut. King (Letter to the editor from an Iowa man in Louisiana.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/01/letter-from-lieut-king.html

John L. Motley to Anna Lothrop Motley, March 28, 1863 (Minister Motley explains Austrian high society to his mother.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/01/john-l-motley-to-anna-lothrop-motley.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 28, 1863 (“Gen. Beauregard states that he has but 17,000 men in South Carolina, and 10,000 in Georgia, 27,000 in all. He asks more”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-28.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Rev. Dr. Robert H. Morrison, March 28, 1863 (Gen. Jackson would like to see a Christian daily paper established.)

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

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Continued from March 16 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4138019/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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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, March 29, 1863 (“my judgment is that Burnside is making a mistake in holding Franklin responsible for the disaster at Fredericksburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/major-general-george-g-meade-to.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, March 29, 1863 (“Rumors of the fight at Hurricane Bridge represent the Rebels as Jenkins’ men, four hundred to seven hundred strong.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 29, 1863 (“All perfectly quiet except the regular picket firing every night which here exceeds anything I ever before met in my experience.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/captain-charles-wright-wills-march-29.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: March 29, 1863 (Church service.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/03/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-march-29.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 29, 1863 (“We are environed and invaded by not less than 600,000 men in arms, and we have not in the field more than 250,000 to oppose them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-29.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 29, 1863 (“Here still, but positively don’t know where we are.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-29.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: Sunday Night, March 29, 1863 (“Very sweet services in our little church to-day. The subject of the sermon was, ‘Woe to them who are at ease in Zion.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_7.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #4
Lincoln note to Gen. Banks, #5
John G. Nicolay, #6
George Templeton Strong, #7
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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

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Salmon P. Chase to John M. Forbes & William H. Aspinwall, March 30, 1863 (Sec. Chase has people buying ships, getting loans, rubbing elbows in England.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/03/salmon-p-chase-to-john-m-forbes-william.html

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 30, 1863 (Morale is high on both sides, “so you may look out for tough fighting next time”.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/major-general-george-g-meade-to_3.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, March 30, 1863 (Five companies of the 23rd Ohio engaging with Jenkins’s force.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Captain Robert Gould Shaw to Francis G. Shaw, March 30, 1863 (The 54th Mass. is making converts of skeptics regarding black troops.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/captain-robert-gould-shaw-to-francis-g.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 30, 1863 (“Gen. Bragg dispatches the government that Gen. Forrest has captured 800 prisoners in Tennessee”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-30.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 30, 1863 (“marched fifteen miles. Waded clay-bottom swamps three-quarters of a mile long. This is in Pitt County, North Carolina.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-30.html

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Edwin M. Stanton, March 31, 1863 (General order regarding property seized from “in-surrectionary States”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/12/edwin-m-stanton-march-31-1863.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: March 31, 1863 (“I close my book and this month of March with sad and painful forebodings.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-march-31-1863.html

Gideon Welles to William H. Seward, March 31, 1863 (On Letters of Marque)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/gideon-welles-to-william-h-seward-mar.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, March 31, 1863 (Confusion about the movements of Gen. Jenkins.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_6.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 31, 1863 (Capt. Wright’s low opinion of blacks and high opinion of his cavalry brigade.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/captain-charles-wright-wills-march-31.html

John M. Forbes to Salmon P. Chase, March 31, 1863 (“If we can only tide over the time until we occupy Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and the mouth of the Rio Grande, we shall avert the complication of another war upon our hands”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/john-m-forbes-to-salmon-p-chase-march.html

General Robert E. Lee to Colonel G. W. Custis Lee, March 31, 1863 (Lee instructs his son on managing the family slaves.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/general-robert-e-lee-to-colonel-g-w_15.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 31, 1863 (“I see some batteries of light artillery going toward Petersburg. This is to be used against the enemy when he advances in that direction from Suffolk.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-31.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: March 31, 1863 (“Left at 7 this morning, marched six miles, waded several creeks, and arrived at Swift Creek at 11. This is a small village. We camp here for the night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-march-31.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Tuesday, March 31, 1863 (The Morgans need a place to stay and a source of food, but Sarah really doesn’t want to go to occupied New Orleans.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-tuesday-march-31.html

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Continued from March 20 (reply #34).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4138019/posts#34

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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

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Gustavus V. Fox to John M. Forbes, April 1, 1863 (Fox wants Forbes to acquire for the U.S. ironclads being built in England “at any price”.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/12/gustavus-v-fox-to-john-m-forbes-april-1.html

John M. Forbes to Gideon Welles, April 1, 1863 (Forbes has a plan to trick the Confederate navy.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/12/john-m-forbes-to-gideon-welles-april-1.html

John M. Forbes to Salmon P. Chase, April 1, 1863 (On the danger of issuing letter of marque.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/john-m-forbes-to-salmon-p-chase-april-1.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, April 1, 1863 (“We are again in communication with America after being cut off about four or five days by General Jenkins.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, April 1, 1863 (“[Jenkins] has attacked two of the posts garrisoned by men under my command and been whipped both times”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

Murat Halstead to Salmon P. Chase, April 1, 1863 (“Genl. Grant, entrusted with our greatest army, is a jackass in the original package. He is a poor drunken imbecile. He is a poor stick sober, and he is most of the time more than half drunk, and much of the time idiotically drunk.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/09/murat-halstead-to-salmon-p-chase-april.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: April 1, 1863 (“Anchored at 8.30 P.M., three miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande”)

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

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 1, 1863 (“It is said we have taken Washington, a village in North-Carolina.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-1.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 1, 1863 (“Heard firing all day, and we are ordered to keep our cartridge boxes on us and our guns by our sides, as we may move any moment.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-1-1863.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: April 1, 1863 (“All quiet on the Rappahannock to-night, and we are almost as still as in days gone by.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_75.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: April 2, 1863 (“The President called at my house this evening, chiefly to see the letter which I had prepared concerning letters of marque.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-april-2-1863.html

Major-General George G. Meade to The Loyal National League, April 2, 1863 (Gen. Meade regrets he will be unable to appear at the Union League meeting in NYC on Apr. 11.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/major-general-george-g-meade-to-loyal.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: April 2, 1863 (Fremantle arrives at the mouth of the Rio Grande and describes the scene.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_5.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 2, 1863 (“This morning early a few hundred women and boys met as by concert in the Capitol Square, saying they were hungry, and must have food.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-2.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 2, 1863 (“this evening at 4 o’clock we went as near the Yankees as we dared, to see the town of Washington.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-2-1863.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: April 2, 1863 (“We were shocked when the gentlemen returned, to hear of the riot which occurred in Richmond today.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_8.html

A Woman’s Diary Of The Siege Of Vicksburg: April 2, 1863 (“We have had to move, and thus lost our cave.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-womans-diary-of-siege-of-vicksburg_18.html

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Continued from March 2 (reply #9). Per footnote #25 Davis staffer William P. Johnston wrote to his wife on this date. Apparently about his visit to the Army of Tennessee.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4134481/posts#9

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

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War Department, Adjutant General’s Office: General Orders, No. 88, April 3, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/12/war-department-adjutant-generals-office.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, April 3, 1863 (Discussing letters of marque with Seward.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-april-3.html

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, April 3, 1863 (“A million of men engaged in peaceful pursuits will be vanquished by a few thousand determined armed men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2012/12/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_27.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday, April 3, 1863 (“Monday’s fight at Point Pleasant was a fine affair; twenty Rebels killed and fifty taken prisoners, of whom twenty-four were wounded.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_19.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, April 3, 1863 (Smith is sorry declined to make his friend Col. Stuart Brig. General. Stuart will resign today.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-eliza_14.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Good Friday, April 3, 1863 (“Carriages are not permitted to run on Good Friday in Mexico, so I had a hot dusty walk of more than a mile into Matamoros.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_44.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 3, 1863 (“No account of yesterday’s riot appeared in the papers to-dry, for obvious reasons. The mob visited most of the shops, and the pillage was pretty extensive.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-3.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 3, 1863 (“We have Washington [NC] besieged.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/06/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-3-1863.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: April 3, 1863 (“Mr. P. has put us upon soldiers’ rations in regard to meat; once a day, a quarter of a pound apiece for the whites, and a half pound for the blacks.”)

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

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: Good Friday, April 3, 1863 (“He thinks that Vicksburg and Port Hudson are both impregnable. God grant that it may be so!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_25.html