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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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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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Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General James B. McPherson, July 5, 1863 (“No enlistment of the negroes captured in Vicksburg will be allowed for the present. All the male negroes we want collected and organized into working parties for the purpose of policing the grounds around the city”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_70.html

Major-General Alfred Pleasonton to Major-General William H. French, July 5, 1863 – Received 11 a.m. (“Major-General Meade desires me to say that, in consequence of a large body of the enemy being concentrated in the road toward Hagerstown, beyond Fairfield, he has suspended his operations for the present.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/major-general-alfred-pleasonton-to.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General Benjamin F. Kelley, July 5, 1863 – Received 10:30 p.m. (“There should be no rest, night or day. Why are you still at Clarksburg?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/edwin-m-stanton-to-major-general_13.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, July 5, 1863 (The President thinking of going to Fortress Monroe to meet with V.P. Stephens.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-july-5.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Major-General John Sedgwick, July 5, 1863 (“the movement of troops ordered toward Middletown has been suspended, to await further information from you.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to-major_5.html

Major-General George G. Mead to Major-Generals Oliver Otis Howard and Henry W. Slocum, July 5, 1863 (“the movement ordered will be stopped where it is until further orders.”)

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

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, July 5, 1863 (“You must not be disappointed; I suppose there will come a time when the Regiment will have a chance.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_7.html

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: July 5, 1863 (“Major Bullin shot by a drunken soldier by the name of Scot, who was sent to New Orleans, tried by a court marshal and hung.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-sergeant-george-g-smith-july-5.html

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: Sunday, July 5, 1863 (Description of Hill’s Point, North Carolina.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/05/diary-of-corporal-david-l-day-sunday.html

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, July 5, 1863 (“The rebels all left last night, it is thought, for Jackson, Mississippi, with the forces of Sherman and Ord in pursuit of them.”)

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

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Sunday, July 5, 1863 (On the retreat with Longstreet.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones, Sunday, July 5, 1863 (“This morning the wires refused to work, being cut, no doubt, in Hanover County.”)

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

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 5, 1863 (“Left this morning at 5 o’clock. Only marched ten miles to-day. The enemy being in our rear, and skirmishing very strong.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-5-1863.html

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, July 6, 1863 (“There was a special Cabinet-meeting at 9 A.M. on the subject of A. H. Stephens’s mission.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-july-6.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, July 6, 1863 (“I found I had continuously underestimated the force of the enemy both in men and Artillery.”)

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

Major-General George G. Meade to Major-General John Sedgwick, July 6, 1863 – 2 a.m. (“I shall not move the army from its present position until I am better satisfied the enemy are evacuating the Cumberland Valley.”)

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

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw to Sarah Blake Sturgis Shaw, July 6, 1863 (“I want to get my men alongside of white troops, and into a good fight, if there is to be one.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-robert-gould-shaw-to-sarah.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, July 6, 1863 (“We had a good Fourth. Salutes from Simmonds and Austin. A good deal of drinking but no harm. We let all out of the guard-house.”)

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

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, July 6, 1863 (“The Rebels found fighting in the enemy’s country a different thing from battling on their own ground.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_18.html

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: July 6, 1863 (“Reached Lebanon at 3 P. M. 20th Ky. 350, surrendered here to Morgan, but not till punishing him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-sergeant-major-luman-harris_29.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Monday, July 6, 1863 (“At 8.30 we halted for a couple of hours, and Generals Lee, Longstreet, Hill, and Willcox had a consultation.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_26.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Monday, July 6, 1863 (“The Governor of Pennsylvania says it was “indecisive,” which means, as we read it, that Meade’s army was defeated.”)

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

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 6, 1863 (The 53rd North Carolina is in the rear guard on the retreat to the Potomac.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-6-1863.html

Diary of Judith W. McGuire, Monday Morning, July 6, 1863 (Yankees at work in Virginia to disrupt Confederate communications.)

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

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Continued from June 24 (reply #19).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4162152/posts#19

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General William S. Rosecrans, July 7, 1863 (“You and your noble army now have the chance to give the finishing blow to the rebellion. Will you neglect the chance?”)

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

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, July 7, 1863 (“I look upon Halleck as a pretty good scholarly critic of other men’s deeds and acts, but as incapable of originating or directing military operations.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-july-7.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General James B. McPherson, July 7, 1863 (“The negroes may be informed that they are free by any one who may choose to give the information, and, if they still wish to go, no force need be used to prevent.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-major_11.html

Major-General William S. Rosecrans to Edwin M. Stanton, July 7, 1863 (“the rebel army has been forced from its strong intrenched positions at Shelbyville and Tullahoma, and driven over the Cumberland Mountains.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/major-general-william-s-rosecrans-to_5.html

Major-General Henry Halleck to Major-General George G. Meade, July 7, 1863 – 3 p.m. (“It gives me great pleasure to inform you that you have been appointed a brigadier-general in the Regular Army, to rank from July 3, the date of your brilliant victory at Gettysburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-henry-halleck-to-major.html

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General George G. Meade, July 7, 1863 (“Push forward, and fight Lee before he can cross the Potomac.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to-major_34.html

Major-General John A. Dix to A. R. Admiral Samuel P. Lee, July 7, 1863 (“I have been under orders for several days to send to Washington all my force, except such as is absolutely necessary to defend Yorktown, Fort Monroe, and the new line of intrenchments near Norfolk.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/major-general-john-dix-to-r-admiral.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, July 7, 1863 (“we have scraps of news by telegraph and by messengers, and, as far as we can learn, Lee is in full retreat and Meade in hot pursuit”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_9.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: July 7, 1863 p.m. (“Heard the news of Vicksburg captured. Fired one hundred guns and had a good time.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_45.html

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: July 7, 1863 (“Morgan still 20 hours ahead of us. Out at 2 A. M. Passed through Fredericksburg. Forded Rolling Fork and through Bardstown.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-sergeant-major-luman-harris_71.html

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: July 7, 1863 (“’Vicksburg had fallen.’ Helo: this was a bright beam of light let in through the dark clouds of our hopes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-sergeant-george-g-smith-july-7.html

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: July 7, 1863 (Corp. Day gets artillery training.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/05/diary-of-sergeant-david-l-day-july-7.html

Diary of Charles H. Lynch: July 7, 1863 (“Near where General Reno fell, during the battle of Antietam.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/diary-of-charles-h-lynch-july-7-1863.html

Lieutenant Francis H. Wigfall to Senator Louis T. Wigfall, July 7, 1863 (“We reached this place yesterday afternoon while a fight was going on for the possession of the ford, the enemy endeavoring to drive us from it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/lieutenant-francis-h-wigfall-to-senator_3.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: July 7, 1863 (“Sister’s sons [Mrs. Elizabeth R. Cocke’s] are with Longstreet, and her anxiety is intense, as that division, it is said, lost so heavily.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-july-7.html

Diary of Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle: Tuesday, July 7, 1863 (“Lawley introduced me to General Stuart in the streets of Hagerstown to-day. He is commonly called Jeb Stuart, on account of his initials”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-sir-arthur-james-lyon_27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Tuesday, July 7, 1863 (“Col. Custis Lee, from the President’s office, was in my office at half-past two P.M. to-day, and said nothing had been received from his father yet — but he did not deny that such accounts might be substantially true.”)

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

A Woman’s Diary Of The Siege Of Vicksburg: July 7, 1863 (Things appear unsettled in post-siege Vicksburg.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-womans-diary-of-siege-of-vicksburg_28.html

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Continued from July 2 (reply #55).Seward’s speech foretelling Vicksburg as “the beginning of the end” was covered in the New York Herald on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4163773/posts?q=1&;page=51#55

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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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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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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