Harper’s Weekly – July 4, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 4, 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/4163773/posts

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The Execution of Williams and Peters – 1-2
Wanted – A Reserve Force – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4-5
Domestic Intelligence – 5
Foreign News – 5
The Siege of Vicksburg – 6-8, 14-16
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. XVI – 9-11
After the Battle of Antietam – 11
Blind – 11, 13-14
The Cavalry Fight Near Culpepper – 12, 14-16
A Raid Among the Rice Plantations – 15
A Typical Negro – 17-18
A Duel or Two – 18

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Continued from July 3 (reply #77).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4163773/posts?q=1&;page=51#77

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from July 3 (reply #78).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4163773/posts?q=1&;page=51#77

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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Continued from June 27 (reply #7).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4163773/posts#7

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

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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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Continued from July 3 (reply #90).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4163773/posts?q=1&;page=51#90

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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

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Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John A. Dix, July 4, 1863 – 5 p.m. (“Lee commenced retreating toward Chambersburg at 3 o clock this morning. Whether he ever gets to Richmond may depend much upon your success in breaking his communication.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/edwin-m-stanton-to-major-general-john.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, July 4, 1863 (“There seems to have been no system, no arrangement, for prompt, constant, and speedy intelligence.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-july-4.html

Major General Ulysses S. Grant to Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton, July 4, 1863 (“Should these terms be accepted, white flags should be displayed along your lines”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/07/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to.html

Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton to Major General Ulysses S. Grant, July 4, 1863 (“I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this day, and in reply to say that the terms proposed by you are accepted.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/07/lieutenant-general-john-c-pemberton-to.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, July 4, 1863—10:30 a.m. (“The enemy surrendered this morning. The only terms allowed is their parole as prisoners of war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_15.html

Rear Admiral David D. Porter to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 4, 1863 (“I congratulate you in getting Vicksburg on any honorable terms.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/rear-admiral-david-d-porter-to-major.html

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 4, 1863 (“To me the delicacy with which you have treated a brave but deluded enemy is more eloquent than the most gorgeous oratory of an Everett.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_52.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant: Special Orders, No. 180, July 4, 1863 (draft copy) (Dealing with Vicksburg after the surrender.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-special_23.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant: Special Orders, No. 180, July 4, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-special.html

Commodore George W. Graham to Lieutenant Colonel John A. Rawlins, July 4, 1863 (“Boys very uneasy along the river cannot you send me glad tidings something that I can depend upon for fourth of July.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/commodore-george-w-graham-to-lieutenant.html

Lieutenant Colonel John A. Rawlins to Commodore George W. Graham, July 4, 1863 (“Vicksburg will probably be surrendered at 10 oclock today, the terms have not yet been fully settled, will be by nine oclock, will send you word. Dont go off half cocked”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/lieutenant-colonel-john-rawlins-to.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks, July 4, 1863 (“I regard the terms really more favorably than an unconditional surrender. It leaves the transports and troops for immediate use.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_40.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Richard Taylor, July 4, 1863 (“I could not credit the story, though told so straight, and I am now truly glad to hear your denial.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_29.html

Major Charles Fessenden Morse: July 4, 1863 (“I have again passed safely through a terrible battle of three days. The regiment has lost terribly”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-charles-fessenden-morse-july-4.html

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: July 4, 1863 (“Morgan has succeeded in getting into Ky. and now the drama is to see if he can get out or whether he is to succeed in his raid.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-sergeant-major-luman-harris_1.html

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Saturday, July 4, 1863 (“Helena invested at 4 A. M. hard fighting till 11. A. M. 15000 rebs comanded by Lieut Gen Holmes inforce 3500. Maj. Gen Prentice our Cap 15 G. theirs 3000 Fight was desperate.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/diary-of-4th-sergeant-john-s-morgan_10.html

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, July 4, 1863 (“This has been a hard Fourth of July; I don’t want to see another such a Fourth.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/diary-of-alexander-g-downing-saturday.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: July 4, 1863 (“Vague rumors are on the wing this evening that Grant to-day has made another successful swing; that Vicksburg has fallen.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-july_0.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Saturday, July 4, 1863 (“General Longstreet talked to me for a long time about the battle. He said the mistake they had made was in not concentrating the army more, and making the attack yesterday with 30,000 men instead of 15,000.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 4, 1863 (“The Department Guard (my son with them) were marched last night back to the city, and out to Meadow Bridge, on the Chickahominy, some sixteen miles!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-4.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 4, 1863 (“The battle is over, and although we did not succeed in pushing the enemy out of their strong position, I am sure they have not anything to boast about.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-4-1863.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: July 4, 1863 (“The morning papers report that General D. H. Hill had a skirmish near Timstall’s Station on Thursday evening, and repulsed the enemy. Nothing from our armies in Pennsylvania or Vicksburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_92.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: July 4, 1863 – 11 p.m. (“Heavy musketry to-night, for two hours, at the bridge above this place. It has ceased, and we hope that the enemy are driven back.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_16.html

A Woman’s Diary Of The Siege Of Vicksburg: July 4, 1863 (“And now this ‘silence that is golden’ indeed is over all, and my limbs are unhurt, and I suppose if I were Catholic, in my fervent gratitude, I would hie me with a rich offering to the shrine of ‘our Lady of Mercy.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-womans-diary-of-siege-of-vicksburg_26.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #3
Grant memoirs, #4
William Tecumseh Sherman, #5
John Jackman, #6
“Lee,” #7
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #8
George Templeton Strong, #9
Lincoln notes to Samuel P. Lee, #10
Links to 24 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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There is a lithograph of one of the most famous photos of the war; Gordon Under Medical Inspection. That photo is as a tremendous propaganda coup for the North. Copies of it were spread far and away bolstering Pro-Union sentiment in Europe.

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Continued from July 4 (reply #7).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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Continued from July 4 (reply #4).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One