Harper’s Weekly – July 18, 1863

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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/4167030/posts

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Siege of Port Hudson – 1, 5-6, 17
Gettysburg – 2
The Good News – 2
The Lounger – 2-3
Humors of the Day – 3-4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Foreign News – 4
Jeff Davis’s Face, as seen through South Mountain Gap, Fourth of July, 1863 – 4
Song – 7
The Late Gen. Reynolds – 7
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. XVIII-XIX – 7-10
The Invasion of the North – 8, 12-13, 15-16
The Result of War – Virginia in 1863 – 11
Ralph Hazlitt, Soldier – 13--14
The Fight at Upperville – 16-17
The Hour and the Cause – 17
Major Kiernan – 18-19

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

Continued from July 10 (reply #55).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4165449/posts?q=1&;page=51#55

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 16 (reply #51).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4167030/posts?q=1&;page=51#51

David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 14 (reply #27). Frances Seward wrote to her husband about “Copperheads spreading malicious stories” on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4167030/posts#27

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 16 (reply #46).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4167030/posts#46

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, July 18, 1863 (“The generals have succeeded in prolonging the war. Othello’s occupation is not yet gone.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-july-18.html

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General William T. Sherman, July 18, 1863 (“Continue the pursuit as long as you have reasonable hopes of favorable results, but do not wear your men out.”)

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

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: July 18, 1863 (“At Gallipolis heard Morgan had pushed by up the Ohio as if to cross at Pomeroy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_41.html

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: July 18, 1863 (“Reached some large iron furnace where we fed our horses and got breakfast. Morgan stripped Rutland of most everything.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-sergeant-major-luman-harris_58.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, July 18, 1863 (“the design of the expedition being to cut off Colonel Biffle and Forrest who were retreating from Colonels Hatch and Phillips. But like somebody else, we were one day too late.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_25.html

Lieutenant Francis H. Wigfall to Louise Wigfall, July 18, 1863 (Lt. Wigfall describes the impoverished condition of his artillery battery.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/lieutenant-frances-h-wigfall-to-louise.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: July 18, 1863 (“The news of the New York riots, which they got up in opposition to the draft, is cheering!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_19.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Saturday, July 18, 1863 (“But we have awful good news from New York: an Insurrection, the loss of many lives, extensive pillage and burning, with a suspension of the conscription!”)

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

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 18, 1863 (“The Government insists on my pursuing and destroying Lee. The former I can do, but the latter will depend on him as much as on me”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to_10.html

Major-General Oliver O. Howard to Abraham Lincoln, July 18, 1863 (“We have, if I may be allowed to say it, a Commanding General in whom all the officers, with whom I have come in contact, express complete confidence.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-oliver-o-howard-to.html

Major-General John A. Dix to Major General Henry Halleck, Received July 18, 1863 (A comprehensive report of army activity in Dix’s department since mid-June.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/major-general-john-dix-to-major-general_22.html

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw to Annie K. Haggerty Shaw, July 18, 1863 (“Fort Wagner is being very heavily bombarded. We are not far from it. We hear nothing but praise of the Fifty-fourth on all hands.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/colonel-robert-gould-shaw-to-annie-k_10.html

Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, July 18, 1863 (“now in the Northern States, and especially here in Ohio, your popularity is second only to that of Grant.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/01/senator-john-sherman-to-major-general_21.html

The 6th Regiment. Letter from Lieut. Alden. (Letters to the editor about the activities of the 6th Iowa at Jackson.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/04/6th-regiment-letter-from-lieut-alden.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, July 18, 1863 (The Morgan girls think they spy Gen. Gardner, a prisoner from Port Hudson, held in a home on Rampart St., New Orleans.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-sarah-morgan-sunday-july-18.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today’s posts:

American Battlefield Trust map & “Never Call Retreat,” reply #3
“Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” #4
John Jackman, #5
Johnny Green, #6
“Team of Rivals,” #7
Lincoln note to Judge Holt, #8
John Hay, #9
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #10
Links to 15 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

[SkyDancer]

A hundred and six years later we were on the moon.

[BrexitBen]

It’s fitting that Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of LBJ’s mistresses, adores ol’ “ honest Abe “ as well.

Tyrants make her giddy.

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

*A hundred and six years later we were on the moon.”

Interesting perspective.

What is your guess on the survival of our Republic now, and going to a planet with humans in the near future?

5.56mm

[cowboyusa]

He was too weak, imagine an Andrew Jackson during the War.

[SkyDancer]

Dunno, it’s only Tuesday.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 3 (reply #75). Robert Toombs wrote to Alexander Stephens that Davis was a “stupid, malignant wretch” on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4163773/posts?q=1&;page=51#75

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from July 18 (reply #7).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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