Harper’s Weekly – July 4, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 4, 1863

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Continued from July 7 (reply #34).

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from June 28 (reply #12).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4163773/posts#12

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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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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Continued from July 5 (reply #20).

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, July 8, 1863 (“The rejoicing in regard to Vicksburg is immense. Admiral Porter’s brief dispatch to me was promptly transmitted over the whole country, and led, everywhere, to spontaneous gatherings, firing of guns, ringing of bells, and general gratification and gladness.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/there-was-serenade-last-night-in-honor.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General James B. McPherson, July 8, 1863 (“The terms which I proposed to General Pemberton were free from ambiguity, and were accepted in unmistakable language.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_78.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General James B. McPherson, July 8, 1863 (“I will give you the following rules for your guidance, that there may be no misunderstanding”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_58.html

Major-General Henry Halleck to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 8, 1863—6:45 p.m. (“I fear your paroling the garrison at Vicksburg without actual delivery to a proper agent, as required by the fourteenth article of the cartel, may be construed into an absolute release, and that the men will be immediately placed in the ranks of the enemy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-henry-halleck-to-major.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, July 8, 1863 (“as I have to follow and fight him, I would rather do it at once and in Maryland than to follow into Virginia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, July 8, 1863 (“Altogether things wear a hopeful appearance, but I do not expect an early end of the war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia_21.html

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: July 8, 1863 (“Three miles from Ohio. Morgan across the river. Captured several steamboats.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-sergeant-major-luman-harris_11.html

Diary of 4th Sergeant John S. Morgan: Wednesday, July 8, 1863 (“Guns fireing at sunrise for salute, big speeches from 9. to 12. in honor of victories here and Vicksburg big time”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/diary-of-4th-sergeant-john-s-morgan_56.html

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: July 8, 1863 (“We were now in sight of the frowning hights of Port Hudson. The stars and stripes were streaming from the flag pole in the fort.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-sergeant-george-g-smith-july-8.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: July 8, 1863 (“Last night about four hundred of Roddy’s command ventured to the government corral, two miles from Corinth, capturing a company of the Thirty-ninth Iowa, and drove off about six hundred mules.”)

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

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Wednesday, July 8, 1863 (“Every one was full of forebodings as to my probable fate when I fell into Yankee clutches. In deference to their advice I took off my grey shooting-jacket, in which they said I was sure to be taken for a rebel, and I put on a black coat”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_28.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Wednesday, July 8, 1863 (“But the absence of dispatches from Gen. Lee himself is beginning to create distrust, and doubts of decisive success at Gettysburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-wednesday.html

Lieutenant Francis H. Wigfall to Senator Louis T. Wigfall, July 8, 1863 (“We were engaged on the third day of the fight at Gettysburg with a battery of the enemy at long range.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/lieutenant-francis-h-wigfall-to-senator.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 8, 1863 (“We lost in the last fight in our company eleven killed and twenty-six wounded”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-8-1863.html

Charlotte Cross Wigfall: July 8, 1863 (“Owing to the weather or fear of the trains being taken, we have had no mails from Richmond until yesterday and then only a stray paper, but that tells us there has been another battle.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/charlotte-cross-wigfall-july-8-1863.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire, Wednesday, July 8, 1863 (“Accounts from Gettysburg very confused. Nothing seems to be known certainly; but Vicksburg has fallen! So says rumour, and we are afraid not to believe.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/diary-of-judith-w-mcguire-wednesday.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #40
“Never Call Retreat,” #41
“Lincoln,” #42
Lincoln note to Lorenzo Thomas, #43
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #44
Grant memoirs, #45
John Jackman, #46
Johnny Green, #47
Links to 16 items at Civil War Notebook, #48

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

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

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

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, July 9, 1863 (“The Secretary of War and General Halleck are much dissatisfied that Admiral Porter should have sent me information of the capture of Vicksburg in advance of any word from General Grant”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday-july-9.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, July 9, 1863 (Col. Lowell remembers his brother who died at Antietam.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_10.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: July 9, 1863 p.m. (“Left Charleston on steamboat for upper river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_50.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Thursday, July 9, 1863 (The 7th Illinois on the move in Mississippi.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_55.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Thursday, July 9, 1863 (Sir Arthur manages to get into the Union lines without serious problems.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Thursday, July 9, 1863 (“The fall of Vicksburg, alone, does not make this the darkest day of the war, as it is undoubtedly. The news from Lee’s army is appalling.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-thursday.html

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Today’s posts:

Elisha Hunt Rhodes and map from Shelby Foote’s Civil War Narrative, reply #50
John Jackman, #51
Johnny Green, #52
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #53

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Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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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: Friday, July 10, 1863 (“Why cannot our army move as rapidly as the Rebels?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-july-10.html

John M. Forbes et al to Gideon Welles, July 10, 1863 (“While failing to accomplish any great object, we hope that we have done something to enlighten public opinion by our constant intercourse with leading public and literary men and others”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/john-m-forbes-et-al-to-gideon-welles.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, July 10, 1863 (“Lee has not crossed and does not intend to cross the river, and I expect in a few days, if not sooner, again to hazard the fortune of war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to_7.html

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Ulysses S. Grant, July 10, 1863—10:30 a.m. (“On a full examination of the question, it is decided that you, as the commander of an army, were authorized to agree upon the parole and release of the garrison of Vicksburg with the general commanding the place.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to-major.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, July 10, 1863 – 1 p.m. (“I shall advance cautiously on the same line to-morrow until I can develop more fully the enemy’s force and position, upon which my future operations will depend.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/major-general-george-g-meade-to-major_12.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: July 10, 1863 (“At Loup Creek all day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_78.html

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: July 10, 1863 (The 25th Massachusetts is getting whiskey to prevent malaria. Corp. Day is now Sgt. Day.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/05/diary-of-sergeant-david-l-day-july-10.html

Diary of Charles H. Lynch: July 10, 1863 (“Continual skirmishing going on with the rebs between Sharpsburg and Hagerstown, Maryland.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/diary-of-charles-h-lynch-july-10-1863.html

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Friday, July 10, 1863 (“News came that there was fighting at Jackson, Mississippi, General Sherman having pushed Johnston back to that point.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/diary-of-alexander-g-downing-friday_9.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Friday, July 10, 1863 (“The four hundred rebels made good their escape across the Tennessee with all their spoils.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_76.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Friday, July 10, 1863 (“One woman in particular, thrust her ugly old head out of an upper window, and yelled out, ‘Air they a-fixin’ for another battle out there?’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_2.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Friday, July 10, 1863 (“a dispatch was received from Gen. Beauregard that the enemy attacked the forts in Charleston harbor, and, subsequently, that they were landing troops on Morris Island.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-friday.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 10, 1863 (“Moved four and a half miles on the other side of town. We have fortified ourselves here.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-10-1863.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: July 10, 1863 (Sarah can’t believe Vicksburg and Port Hudson have fallen.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-sarah-morgan-july-10-1863.html