Harper’s Weekly – August 1, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | August 1, 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/4170360/posts

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The Fall of Vicksburg – 1-2, 9-11, 14-15
Banks – 2
The Riots – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Strong Heart – 5-9
The Riots in New York – 5-8, 16-17
Copperhead Song for 1870 – 11
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. XXIV – 11-12
Latest News from the Dead – 12-13

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Continued from March 2 (reply #8).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4134481/posts#8

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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892) Written by Himself

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, August 1, 1863 (“Made a selection of midshipmen for Naval School. An immense number of applicants and, of course, many disappointments.”)

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

Major-General Ulysses S. Grant: General Orders No. 50, August 1, 1863 (How it’s going to be in the Department of the Tennessee.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/11/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-general.html

Major General William S. Rosecrans to Abraham Lincoln, August 1, 1863 (Why we haven’t moved.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/major-general-william-s-rosecrans-to_3.html

Brigadier-General Rufus King, August 1, 1863 (“[Col. Lowell] returned from his expedition last night, bringing in about 20 horses captured from Mosby, and all the prisoners taken by Mosby at Fairfax.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/brigadier-general-rufus-king-august-1.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: August 1, 1863 (“Our best scout, Corporal Jacobs, and Private Fenchard, Company F, were murdered last night at Morris’ mill on Gauley River, twelve miles above Gauley Bridge.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: August 1, 1863 (Practice firing of artillery.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/05/diary-of-sergeant-david-l-day-august-1.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: August 1, 1863 (Chatting with a Tennessee girl as her home is being pillaged by Union soldiers.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_43.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 1, 1863 (“Gen. Lee writes that fifty men deserted from Scale’s Regiment, North Carolina. . . He wants pickets placed to catch them, so that some examples may be made.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-1.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: August 1, 1863 (“Resumed our march this morning, and got to Orange Court House, fourteen miles. It is a very hot day, and there were several men fell dead on the road from sunstroke.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-august-1.html

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Today’s posts:

Frederick Douglass, reply #3
John Hay, #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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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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Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: August 2, 1863 (“This morning we move on the Lexington road and arrive at Lexington [TN] about noon.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_53.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, Sunday, August 2, 1863 – Noon (“I am thankful they buried him ‘with his niggers;’ they were brave men and they were his men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to.html

Francis Lieber to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, August 2, 1863 (“Doubtless you agree with me that now, the Mississippi being cleared, we shall have prowling assassins along its banks, firing on passengers from behind the levees.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/francis-lieber-to-major-general-henry-w_30.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 2, 1863 (“the momentary gloom, hanging like the pall of death over our affairs, cannot be dispelled without a decisive victory somewhere, or news of speedy foreign intervention.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-2.html

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, August 2, 1863 (“I promised to write you more about our campaign in Pennsylvania.” And so he does.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/04/dr-spencer-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother_46.html

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

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, August 3, 1863 (Sec. Welles feels that he works too hard.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-august-3.html

Governor Horatio Seymour to Major-General John A. Dix, Monday, August 3, 1863 (“I believe [Lincoln’s] answer will relieve you and me from the painful questions growing out of an armed enforcement of the conscription law in this patriotic State

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/governor-horatio-seymour-to-major.html

Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, August 3, 1863 (“Even your old enemy, the Cincinnati ‘Gazette,’ has in several recent numbers spoken of you in very complimentary terms”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/02/senator-john-sherman-to-major-general.html

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, August 3, 1863 (“the Constitution, laws of Congress, and regulations of the executive departments subject to the decisions of the Supreme Court are the laws which all must obey without stopping to inquire why.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/02/major-general-william-t-sherman-to.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, August 3, 1863 (“The Government, for some reason best known to itself, has ordered me to cease the pursuit of Lee, though I strongly recommended an advance. This is confidential . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to_14.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, Sunday, August 3, 1863 – P. M. (“It is a satisfaction to think that the President’s order is the result of your father’s letter”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_2.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: August 3, 1863 (“Foraging parties are being sent out in every direction. We are now compelled to subsist wholly upon the country.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_85.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 3, 1863 (“Mr. W. H. Locke, on the James River, writes that more than a thousand deserters from Lee’s army have crossed at that place within the last fortnight”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-3.html

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Continued from July 15 (reply #36).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4167030/posts#36

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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William H. Seward to Gideon Welles, August 4, 1863 (“I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 31st ulto. relating to the case of the Mont Blanc. . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/william-h-seward-to-gideon-welles.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, August 4, 1863 (“Seward undertook to talk wise in relation to Commander Collins and the Mont Blanc, but really betrayed inexcusable ignorance of the subject of prize and prize courts”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-august-4.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, August 4, 1863 – P. M. (“I have seen enough to convince me that all reports which go through Washington are systematically falsified.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_6.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, August 4, 1863 – P. M. (“he died to prove the fact that blacks will fight, and we owe it to him to show that that fact was worth proving, — better worth proving at this moment than any other.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to-john.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: August 4, 1863 (“God bless the loyal ladies of the South!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_91.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 4, 1863 (“Lee is falling back on this side of the Rappahannock. His army has been diminished by desertions; but he has been reinforced pretty considerably since leaving Pennsylvania.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-4.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: August 4, 1863 (“Left our camp, marched three miles, one mile on the south side of town.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-august-4.html

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Continued from July 16 (reply #45).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4167030/posts#45

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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

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Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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

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Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: August 5, 1863 (“If at any time since we were in this great struggle there was cause for thanksgiving in the current course of things, surely that time is now.”)

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

Robert Dale Owen to Abraham Lincoln, August 5, 1863 (Abstract of a report enclosed. Or maybe not.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/11/robert-dale-owen-to-abraham-lincoln.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 5, 1863 (“Lee writes that his men are in good fighting condition — if he only had enough of them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-5.html