Harper’s Weekly – July 25, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 25, 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/4168700/posts

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The Taking of Vicksburg – 1, 5-7, 17
Poim – 2
The Draft – 2
The Lounger – 2-3
Humors of the Day – 3-4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Foreign News – 4
The Charmer Charmed – 8-9
“Tempora Mutantur” – 9-10
The Battle of Gettysburg – 10-11
A Child’s Question – 12
Gervaise – 12-13
In Hospital – 13
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. XX-XXIII – 13-14
The Great River Battery at Port Hudson – 15, 17
Our Militia at Carlisle – 16-17
Last Words – 17

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

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

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Abraham Lincoln to Gideon Welles, July 25, 1863 (Instructions to the Navy Dept. on foreign contraband trade.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/abraham-lincoln-to-gideon-welles-july.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, July 25, 1863 (Concern about the draft in Connecticut will not induce Welles to intervene with the War Dept.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-july-25.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, July 25, 1863 (“I had the satisfaction the other day of arresting the Lieut.-Colonel who had charge of the draft in this and the neighbouring counties”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_18.html

Letter from T. A. Trent (Letter to the editor from an Iowa soldier in Mississippi.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/02/letter-from-t-trent.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, July 25, 1863 (“This evening we receive orders to prepare for another expedition. The boys are now running to and fro, getting everything in order for an expected fray.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_72.html

Miss B. L. Canedy, July 27, 1863 (“In our school the ages range from 5 to 45, and as far as I can judge at present, they will soon leave white pupils far behind.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/miss-b-l-canedy-july-27-1863.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 25, 1863 (“Gen. Jos. E. Johnston telegraphs the President that Grant has fallen back to Vicksburg, and, from information in his possession, will not stay there a day, but will proceed up the river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-25.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 25, 1863 (“Left this morning at 7 o’clock, halted at 3 in the afternoon-sixteen miles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-25-1863.html

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Today’s posts:

George Templeton Strong, reply #3
John Hay, #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Love reading through the old papers. Found one that was in an old abandoned farm that had an article about Hank Aaron- I got a photo of it, but before I could ask the owner if I could have it, the building got torn down. 😔

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This one won’t get torn down. As long as I keep paying Photobucket and we all keep supporting Free Republic dot com.

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Continued from July 20 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4168700/posts#27

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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, July 26, 1863 (“to be candid, I have no faith that Meade will attack Lee; nothing looks like it to me” – President Lincoln [per Sec. Welles].)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-july-26.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 26, 1863 (“It is evident Lee is determined not to fight me till he gets me as far away from Washington as possible and in a position where all the advantages will be on his side.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to_12.html

Major-General John Sedgwick to his Sister, July 26, 1863 (“I have not had any clothes off since leaving the Rappahannock, and the army and animals are exhausted.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/major-general-john-sedgwick-to-his_28.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Mrs. Delany, July 26, 1863 (Letter to the widow of a subordinate killed at Wytheville.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-mrs.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, July 26, 1863 (“It is thought the same citizen, a man of wealth living in a brick house at that end of town, shot both Colonel Toland and Captain Delany. He (the citizen) was killed by a [man of the] Thirty-fourth.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/06/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, July 26, 1863 (“I see that General Beauregard believes Bob Shaw was killed in a fight on the 18th, — I hope and trust he is mistaken.”)

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

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Sturgis Russell, July 26, 1863 (“I cannot help having a strong hope that Beauregard is mistaken in supposing Rob Shaw killed. If he is dead, they’ve killed one of the dearest fellows that ever was.”)

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

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, Sunday July 26, 1863 (“The manliness and patriotism and high courage of such a soldier never die with him; they live in his comrades, — it should be the same with the gentleness and thoughtfulness which made him so loveable a son and brother and friend. As you once wrote, he never let the sun go down upon an unkind or thoughtless word.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_22.html

Diary of Sergeant Major Luman Harris Tenney: July 26, 1863 (“reached Camp Worthington about 11. Had hardly fed the horses when a squad of men came for us. Kept us under guard.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-sergeant-major-luman-harris_62.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, July 26, 1863 (“By day-light the Tenth Missouri Cavalry, Seventh Kansas, and a battallion of the Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry report to Colonel Rowett, who assumes command and leads the column forth on the Purdy road.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_16.html

George L. Stearns to Mary Hall Stearns, July 26, 1863 (“I have had a short interview with Mr. Chase, who was very gracious; too short for me to form an opinion of him. He is much interested in my work, for it aids his plans, and will see me again.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/07/george-l-stearns-to-mary-hall-stearns.html

General Robert E. Lee to Charlotte Wickham Lee, July 26, 1863 (Charlotte Wickham Lee is the General’s daughter-in-law. “F” is her husband, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/12/general-robert-e-lee-to-charlotte_31.html

General Robert E. Lee to Margaret Stuart, July 26, 1863 (“The army did all it could. I fear I required of it impossibilities. But it responded to the call nobly and cheerfully, and though it did not win a victory it conquered a success.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/general-robert-e-lee-to-margaret-stuart.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 26, 1863 (“Even Lee’s great name is dimmed somewhat in the estimation of fools. He must beat Meade before Grant comes up, or suffer in reputation.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-26.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 26, 1863 (“Rested to-day. William Eagle and myself went up the Blue Ridge to gather berries, and were lost in the woods for one hour.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-26-1863.html

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

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

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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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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: Monday, July 27, 1863 (“The Mexican Republic has been extinguished and an empire has risen on its ruins. But for this wicked rebellion in our country this calamity would not have occurred.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-july-27.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, July 27, 1863 (“Rob was very happy too at the head of his regiment where he died: it is pleasant to remember that he never regretted the old Second for a moment.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_23.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, July 27, 1863 (How best to develop a Massachusetts cavalry regiment.)

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

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, July 27, 1863 (“We move early this morning; cross Jack Creek about noon—a noted guerrilla resort.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_0.html

John L. Motley to Anna Lothrop Motley, July 27, 1863 (Motley’s daughters with him in Vienna.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/03/john-l-motley-to-anna-lothrop-motley.html

Miss B. L. Canedy, July 27, 1863 (Already posted wrongly on July 25.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/miss-b-l-canedy-july-27-1863.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 27, 1863 (“Superadded to the calamities crowding upon us, we have a rumor to-day that Gen. Lee has tendered his resignation. This is false.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-27.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 27, 1863 (“Left this morning at 5, crossed the Blue Ridge at Thornton Gap. We camped one mile from Sparrowsville. Marched thirteen miles to-day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-27-1863.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln notes to Burnside and Meade, reply #13
George Templeton Strong, #14
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #15
John Jackman, #16
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #17

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

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