Harper’s Weekly – May 9, 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/4150032/posts

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Campaigning in Louisiana – 1, 18
A Warning – 2
The Financial Situation and the Prospect – 2
The Lounger – 2-3
Humors of the Day – 3-4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Foreign News – 4
The Food Question Down South – 4
The Campaign in Louisiana – 5-6, 13-14
Contrabands Coming into Our Lines Under the Proclamation – 7
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. VI – 8-9
House-Hunting – 9-10
A Night with the New Jersey Cavalry – 10, 12-13
Major-General Hooker, Commanding the Army of the Potomac, and His Personal Staff – 11
The Naval Hospital Boat “Red River” – 14-15
The Feat of the “Escort” – 14-16
The “Monitor” – 13
Prince Salm-Salm – 17
Wiser and Better – 17-18

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Continued from May 6 (reply #50). Lincoln told a NY Tribune reporter that “his confidence in Gen. Hooker and his army [was] unshaken” on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150032/posts#50

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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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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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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Continued from May 3 (reply #19).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150032/posts#19

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from May 3 (reply #21).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150032/posts#21

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

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

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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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Major-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, May 9, 1863 (“You have no doubt seen the disastrous termination of our late move. I have not time, and but little inclination, to allude to the matter.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/major-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_17.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 9, 1863 (“O, what a grand army this is, and what a sight to fire the heart of a spectator with a speck of patriotism in his bosom.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/diary-of-5th-sergeant-osborn-h-oldroyd_83.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Saturday, May 9, 1863 (“A Confederate soldier when wounded is not given his discharge, but is employed at such work as he is competent to perform.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_13.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 9, 1863 (“Numbers have now no terror for the Southern people. They are willing to wage the war against quadruple their number.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-9-1863.html

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, May 9, 1863 (Tending the wounded during the Battle of Chancellorsville.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/dr-spencer-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother_20.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: Saturday Night, May 9, 1863 (A visit from Stoneman’s cavalry.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_18.html

A Woman’s Diary Of The Siege Of Vicksburg: May 9, 1863 (“There is now a general hospital opposite this house and a small-pox hospital next door. War. famine, pestilence, and fire surround us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-womans-diary-of-siege-of-vicksburg_25.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lincoln,” reply #3
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #4
John G. Nicolay, #5
“Grant,” #6
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #7
Sherman letter, #8
John Hay, #9
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #10

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Continued from March 17 (reply #19).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4138019/posts#19

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

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Continued from May 8 (reply #69).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4150032/posts?q=1&;page=51#69

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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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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Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 10, 1863 (“I think these last operations have shaken the confidence of the army in Hooker’s judgment, particularly among the superior officers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/major-general-george-g-meade-to_9.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 10, 1863 (Visit to a young woman whose slaves have left and is “a complete stranger to housework of any kind”.

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/diary-of-5th-sergeant-osborn-h-oldroyd_28.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, May 10, 1863 (“flaming bulletins are now flying everywhere exciting loud huzzas from the soldiers in and around Corinth. ‘Richmond fallen,’ ‘Stoneman occupying the city’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/12/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_31.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Sunday, May 10, 1863 (“The difficulty of crossing the Mississippi appeared to increase the nearer I got to it, and General [Louis] Hebert told me that it was very doubtful whether I could cross at all at this point.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 10, 1863 (“Detachments of Federal troops are now marching into the city every few hours, guarded by (mostly) South Carolinians”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-10.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 9 & 10, 1863 (“Resting.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/08/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-9-10.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: Sabbath, May 10, 1863 (“We only hear of one more death among Lexington boys, young Imboden. Several wounded; this is much better than we had dared to hope.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston_22.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: Sunday, May 10, 1863 (“Sad, sad tidings were brought to our cottage this morning! Washington, the youngest and darling son of our dear friend, Mrs. Stuart, has fallen”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_19.html

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Today’s posts:

“Jefferson Davis, American,” reply #12
“Lee,” #13
John Nicolay, #14
George Templeton Strong, #15
John Hay, #16
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #17

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Shelby Foote, The Civil War Narrative, Volume Two, Fredericksburg to Meridian

Continued from May 9 (reply #6).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes