Harper’s Weekly – May 30, 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/4155252/posts

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How Steamboats Run Rebel Batteries – 1-2
General Grant’s Campaign – 1, 9-10
The Berwick’s Bay Expedition – 1, 8
One Day’s Command – 2
The Arrest of Vallandigham – 2-3
Lay Representation in the Methodist Church – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
A Bachelor’s Soliloquy on the Conscript Act – 5
Sally’s Choice – 5-6
My First Duel – 6-7
What’s in the Pack? – 7
Colonel Kilpatrick’s Raid into Secessia – 7, 15
A Scout in Dixie – 7, 17
Trifles – 7
A Cavalry Attack – 11
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. IX – 12-14
Sympathy – 14
The Slave Owner’s Spectre – 14
Gen. Stonewall Jackson – 16-17

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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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, May 30, 1863 (“I am surprised at the loose and improper management of General Dix in regard to the blockade and traffic in the Rebel region.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-may-30.html

Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, May 30, 1863 (Banks reports to the War Dept. on the Port Hudson campaign.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/major-general-nathaniel-p-banks-to.html

Major General John A. McClernand’s General Orders No. 72 (Congratulations to his Corps on their part in the Vicksburg campaign.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/11/major-general-john-mcclernands-general.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to his Daughter, May 30, 1863 (Includes a sad story of a hungry Mississippi child.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-his.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry S. Russell, May 30, 1863 (“As soon as you are filled to a minimum, shut down on all but first-rate men. I do not want another ‘scalawag’ to come into the regiment”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_14.html

Colonel Florence M. Cornyn to Colonel Jacob B. Biffle, May 30, 1863 (“to-day I free and take with me from this town every colored creature who inherits with the human race every where the image of his Maker and an immortal soul.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/colonel-florence-m-cornyn-to-colonel.html

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: May 30, 1863 (“Today one of our shells dismounted a rebel gun.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-sergeant-george-g-smith-may-30.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 30, 1863 (“A few surmise that there is need for us at the front, but I think it is only a freak of General Frank Blair, who is in command of our excursion party.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-5th-sergeant-osborn-h-oldroyd_76.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 30, 1863 (“dispatch, to-day, from Jackson, Miss., which says the enemy have fallen back from the position lately occupied by them in front of Vicksburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-30.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 30, 1863 (“We see the Yankees in balloons every day, reconnoitering our lines.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/08/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-30-1863.html

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Richard Cobden , MP was part of the Radical wing of the Liberal party. He is most famous for forming the free trade Anti-Corn League with John Bright. He would be Pro-Union due to his anti-slavery views and seeing the Confederacy as a transplant of the aristocratic privilege he was fighting against in Britain.

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C19fan refers to the item “Policy and Right”, in The Lounger, on page 4.

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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 a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, May 31, 1863 (“Captain Simpson, who has been selected by Admiral Foote as his Fleet Captain and special confidant, arrived to-day from Newport.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-may-31.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, May 31, 1863 (“Our situation is for the first time during the entire Western campaign what it should be.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_5600.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 31, 1863 (“I must say—whether right or wrong-plantation life has had a sort of fascination for me ever since I came south”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-5th-sergeant-osborn-h-oldroyd_16.html

John L. Motley to Lady William Russell, May 31, 1863 (“You are at the headquarters of intelligence, so you know better than I do whether you are going to war about Poland.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/02/john-l-motley-to-lady-william-russell.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Sunday, May 31, 1863 (“Bishop [Stephen] Elliott preached most admirably to a congregation composed of nearly 3000 soldiers”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_25.html

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, May 31, 1863 (“I hope we may be able to frustrate [Hooker’s] plans in part if not in whole.

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/general-robert-e-lee-to-mary-custis-lee_20.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 31, 1863 (“The commissioners, appointed for the purpose, have agreed upon the following schedule of prices for the State of Virginia, under the recent impressment act of Congress . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-31.html

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Today’s posts:

John G. Nicolay, #8
John Hay, #9
John Jackman, #10
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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Continued from May 26 (reply #20).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4155252/posts#20

The following is not continued from a previous post.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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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Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan

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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, June 1, 1863 (Adm. Lardner to command the East India Squadron.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-june-1.html

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw to Annie Kneeland Haggerty Shaw, June 1, 1863 (“if the raising of colored troops prove such a benefit to the country and to the blacks as many people think it will, I shall thank God a thousand times that I was led to take my share in it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/colonel-robert-gould-shaw-to-annie.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, June 1, 1863 (“We are now near Fort Stevens, about four miles north of Washington”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_15.html

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: June 1, 1863 (“The rebels shelled us tremendously all night, but did us no harm. Our business here proved to be to protect a mortar battery that was to be planted on high ground in front of us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-sergeant-george-g-smith-june-1.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: June 1, 1863 (“If our poor foes in Vicksburg could see our piles of provisions on the river landing, they might hunger for defeat.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-5th-sergeant-osborn-h-oldroyd_31.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Monday, June 1, 1863 (“We all went to a review of General Liddell’s brigade at Bellbuckle, a distance of six miles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_29.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: June 1, 1863 (“L. and B. went up to Mr. Marye’s near Fredericksburg to-day, to visit their brother’s grave. They saw my sister, who is there, nursing her wounded son.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_93.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals” (2 excerpts), reply #13
Lincoln note to Joseph Hold, #14
John G. Nicolay, #15
Johnny Green, #16
John Hay, #17
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #18

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Correction: #14 is Lincoln note to William T. Otto, not Joseph Hold [sic].