Harper’s Weekly – April 18, 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/4144747/posts

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Running the Vicksburg Blockade – 1-2
Sketches at General Hooker’s Head-Quarters – 1, 5-8
The Princess of Wales and Her Bridemaids – 1-2, 18
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, by Robert Browning – 2
Charleston – 2-3
War and Trade – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. III – 8-10
“A Dark Night’s Work,” by Elizabeth Gaskell, Ch. XVIII-XIX – 10-11
The British Minister and the Conservative Leaders – 11
The Fight at Port Hudson – 12, 19
A New Torpedo – 13
Stealing a March – 13-14
Lady Courthope’s Trap – 14-15
The Revolving Tower Applied to Harbor Defense – 16-17

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, April 18, 1863 (The Peterhoff mail. Two items)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-april_25.html

Gideon Welles to William H. Seward, April 18, 1863

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

Captain Duncan After The Copperheads (“as much as I hate, loath and despise those armed traitors of the South I consider them honorable men when compared to those copperheads of the North”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/01/captain-duncan-after-copperheads_12.html

Gideon Welles to John M. Forbes, April 18, 1863 (Correspondence between the administration and their agents in Britain. Three items)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/12/gideon-welles-to-john-m-forbes-april-18.html

John M. Forbes & William H. Aspinwall to Gideon Welles, April 18, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/02/john-m-forbes-william-h-aspinwall-to.html

John M. Forbes & William H. Aspinwall to Salmon P. Chase, April 18, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/02/john-m-forbes-william-h-aspinwall-to_27.html

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 18, 1863 (“important plans may be frustrated by subordinates, from their ignorance of how much depended on their share of the work. This was the case at Fredericksburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/major-general-george-g-meade-to_28.html

William H. Seward to Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, April 18, 1863 (Kirkwood’s terms for accepting the mission to Denmark are acceptable to Sec. Seward.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/william-h-seward-to-governor-samuel-j_11.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Saturday, April 18, 1863 (“Mr Sargent, who was now comparatively sober, killed the sheep most scientifically at 5.30 P.M.; and at 6.30 we were actually devouring it, and found it very good.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 18, 1863 (“it is rumored that the enemy’s gun-boats (seven or eight) have passed down the Mississippi in spite of our batteries at Vicksburg”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-18.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, April 18, 1863 (Gen. Jackson longs to see his new daughter.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_20.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 18, 1863 (“This is the end of the siege of Washington. We were there sixteen days, but could not draw the enemy out of their works.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/08/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-18.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: April 18, 1863 (“We have heard of fighting at Fredericksburg; refugees still crowd into Lexington. $75. is now the price asked for board per month, at the hotel.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-april_96.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: April 18, 1863 (“Yesterday spent in the hospital; some of the men are very ill. I go back to-morrow.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_15.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Saturday, April 18, 1863 (“General Pemberton took his leisure about the affair, which is not surprising, as our Generals have more weighty matters than women’s passports to attend to.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-saturday-april-18.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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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, April 19, 1863 (“Several letters from Du Pont on unimportant matters, but no detailed reports of the fight from himself or officers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-april-19.html

Major-General John A. Dix to Major General Henry W. Halleck, April 19, 1863 (“I deem it due to the forces at Suffolk to notice briefly their gallant conduct during the last six days.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/major-general-john-dix-to-major-general.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, April 19, 1863 (“we see ruins and hear of what might have been. A blessed paradise being turned into a howling wilderness.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_16.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, April 19, 1863 (Services from a Presbyterian clergyman of the brigade who later dined with Col. Hayes.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: April 19, 1863 (Relieving Foster’s garrison at Washington.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-april-19.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Sunday, April 19, 1863 (Arrival at the King ranch after desert journey.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_13.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 19, 1863 (“Mr. Benjamin reports that the enemy’s gun-boats, which passed Vicksburg, have recaptured the Queen of the West! It must be so, since he says so.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-19.html

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, April 19, 1863 (“There is increasing probability that I may be elsewhere as the season advances.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-thomas-j-jackson-to-mary_22.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 19, 1863 (“Nothing to-day but rest, which we needed very much.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/08/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-19.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, April 19, 1863 (“Friday morning we arose and prepared to resume our journey for Bonfouca, twenty-three miles away.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-sarah-morgan-sunday-april-19.html

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Continued from April 17 (reply #31).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144747/posts#31

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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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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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, April 20, 1863 (“I am by no means confident that we are acting wisely in expending so much strength and effort on Charleston, a place of no strategic importance”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-april-20.html

William H. Seward to Gideon Welles, April 20, 1863 (On the Peterhoff mail.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/william-h-seward-to-gideon-welles-april.html

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 20, 1863 (Gen. Meade lacks faith in the iron-clads as offensive weaponry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/major-general-george-g-meade-to_29.html

Major-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, April 20, 1863 (“Yesterday the President, Secretary of War, and General Halleck met General Hooker at Aquia Creek”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/major-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_4.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Monday, April 20, 1863 (“Two Texan rangers, belonging to Taylor’s regiment, rode up to us whilst we were at breakfast. These rangers all wear the most enormous spurs I ever saw.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 20, 1863 (“I was again refused permission by Morehead to go with my company, but I went all the same.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/08/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-20.html

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Today’s posts:

U.S. Grant, reply #8
John Nicolay, #9
John Hay, #10
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, April 21, 1863 (The boss wants to get to the bottom of the Peterhoff affair.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-april-21.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Tuesday, April 21, 1863 (“Mr Sargent and the Judge got drunk again about 8 A.M., which, however, had a beneficial effect upon the speed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_2.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 21, 1863 (“Gen. Longstreet lost, it is said, two 32-pounder guns yesterday, with which he was firing on the enemy’s gunboats.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-21.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: April 21, 1863 (“Nothing doing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/08/diary-of-private-louis-leon-april-21.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: April 21, 1863 (“when I look back a year or six months, to pages where I have made notices of prices, how very reasonable they seem now!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-april_56.html

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Continued from April 16 (reply #23).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144747/posts#23

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from April 20 (reply #8).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Continued from April 16 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4144747/posts#25

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

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

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger