Harper’s Weekly – August 8, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | August 8, 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/4172023/posts

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Port Hudson – 1-2, 8
The Opening of the Mississippi River – 2
The Effect of the Late Riots – 2-3
The Lounger – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Public Opinion – 5
Vicksburg – 6
Opening of the Mississippi – 6-7
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. XXV-XXVII – 6, 9-10, 12
The Battle of Gettysburg – 11, 15-16, 19
A Lock of Hair – 12
That Mysterious Joe – 12-14
Drafted! – 14
Execution of Deserters – 17, 19
The Attack on Fort Wagner – 18-19

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Continued from July 19 (reply #19). President Lincoln gave Mary the bad news about the nanny goat on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4168700/posts#19

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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Continued from July 23 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4168700/posts#39

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

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

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Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Allen Hale, William Cochran and Thomas Moorman, August 8, 1863 (It sounds like mob justice prevailed in an Iowa town.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/governor-samuel-j-kirkwood-to-allen.html

Major-General John A. Dix to Governor Horatio Seymour, August 8, 1863 (The draft will proceed as intended in New York.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-general-john-dix-to-governor.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, August 8, 1863 (Col. Smith won’t take leave to visit the folks at home as long as his presence is required with his brigade.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-eliza_14.html

A. B. Plimpton: August 8, 1863 (Report on the schools for the colored in South Carolina.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-b-plimpton-august-8-1863.html

General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, August 8, 1863 (Gen. Lee asks to be relieved of command of the Army of Northern Virginia.)

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

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 8, 1863 (“my old friend, Gen. Rains, sent to Mississippi, stopped and stampeded Grant’s army, after Johnston retreated from Jackson, with his ‘subterra batteries’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-8.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #3
Pres. Lincoln note to Mary Lincoln, #4
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #5
George Templeton Strong, #6
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #7

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Continued from June 1 (reply #13, 2nd part).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4156917/posts#13

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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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Lincoln's "Photographer's Face". Per Dr. James Miner, "His large bony face when in repose was unspeakably sad and as unreadable as that of a sphinx, his eyes were as expressionless as those of a dead fish; but when he smiled or laughed at one of his own stories or that of another then everything about him changed; his figure became alert, a lightning change came over his countenance, his eyes scintillated and I thought he had the most expressive features I had ever seen on the face of a man."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_of_Abraham_Lincoln

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

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Continued from June 25 (reply #27)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4162152/posts#27

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, August 9, 1863 (“if the draft is not heartily responded to, the Government had better make up its mind to letting the South go”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to_16.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, August 9, 1863 (“Mosby again made his appearance capturing wagons, — we retook them all, but didn’t take Mosby, who is an old rat and has a great many holes”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_10.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes: Sunday, August 9, 1863 (“Our Rebel friends are gathering in pretty strong force in our front. Many think it is with the intention of driving us out as soon as the roasting-ears are in condition to afford them food.”)

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

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 9, 1863 (“We have fine hot August weather now, and I hope my tomatoes will mature, and thus save me two dollars per day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-9.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #9
John Hay, #10
Lincoln photos, #11
Lincoln letter to Grant, #12
Nathan Bedford Forrest, #13
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Continued from May 28 (reply #33).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4155252/posts#33

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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Continued from August 1 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4172023/posts#3

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