Harper’s Weekly – August 15, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | August 15, 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/4173681/posts

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In Time of War – 1
Morgan’s Raid – 1-2
Ruse de Guerre – 2-3
The Situation – 3
The Anglo-Pirates – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Army and Navy Items – 4-5
Domestic Intelligence – 5
Foreign News – 5
The President’s Order No. 252 – 5
The Siege of Charleston – 6-8, 10
Belle’s Fairy Prince – 7-9
Maud – 9-10
The Maryland Campaign – 10-11
Capt. John Rodgers, U.S.N. – 10, 16
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. XXVIII – 12-15
The Late General George C. Strong – 15-16
The Late Colonel Shaw – 15-16
General Quincy A. Gilmore – 16, 18
The Capture of Jackson, Mississippi – 17-18
Humors of the Day – 18

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Shelby Foote, The Civil War Narrative, Volume Two, Fredericksburg to Meridian

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, August 15, 1863 (“I had to-day a very full and interesting account of the campaign and fall of Vicksburg from General F. P. Blair, who has done good service in the field and in politics also.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-august_27.html

Governor Horatio Seymour to Major-General John A. Dix, August 15, 1863 (Gen. Dix, the draft, and more troops for his department. Three items.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/governor-horatio-seymour-to-major.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John A. Dix, August 15, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/edwin-m-stanton-to-major-general-john_12.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John A. Dix, August 15, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/edwin-m-stanton-to-major-general-john.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: Saturday Afternoon, August 15, 1863 (“I am going to inspect the Thirteenth at Coal’s Mouth tomorrow; take the band along for the fun of it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 15, 1863 (Special Ops: A plan to liberate Confederate POWs from an island in Lake Erie and take them to Canada.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-15.html

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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, August 16, 1863 (“The manner in which I was received and treated in Washington by all with whom I came in contact was certainly most gratifying to me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to_17.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, August 16, 1863 (“A long and bloody war is still before us. A united North would finish it in a month.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_16.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 16, 1863 (“Was it not thus in the trying times of the Revolution? If so, why can we not bear privation as well as our forefathers did? We must!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-16.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Sunday, August 16, 1863 (A discussion of Confederate prisoners in New Orleans who Miss Morgan may or may not know or be engaged to. Sort of obscure.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-sarah-morgan-sunday-august-16.html

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

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James Henry Hackett was a Shakespearean actor who in 1863 wrote Notes and Comments on Shakespeare.

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, August 17, 1863 (“Seward says Mr. Adams has made a vigorous protest, and informed the British Government if the Rebel ironclads are permitted to come out it will be casus belli.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-august-17.html

Major-General John A. Dix to the Citizens of New York, August 17, 1863 (Now hear this, New Yorkers. . .)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/major-general-john-dix-to-citizens-of.html

Major-General John Sedgwick to Colonel William H. Brown, August 17, 1863 (Tribute to CO of 36th New York Volunteers, who mustered out two days ago upon the expiration of their term of service.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/major-general-john-sedgwick-to-colonel.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, August 17, 1863 (“It looks as if we should be very quiet here for two or three weeks, after which it is probable we shall push up into the mountains again for a campaign of three or four weeks”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

George L. Stearns to Mary Hall Stearns, August 17, 1863 (“Stanton has waked up and ordered me to plump myself down in Tennessee, right in the centre of the accursed institution, and go to work.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/08/george-l-stearns-to-mary-hall-stearns.html

Letter from John F. Dillon. (Iowa Supreme Court Justice regretfully declines to attend a Union rally.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/03/letter-from-john-f-dillon.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 17, 1863 (“No news, except that the bombardment at Charleston is getting hotter — but the casualties are few.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-17.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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, August 18, 1863 (“Blair denounces the practice of dismissing officers without trial as oppressive and wrong.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-august_31.html

Major-General John A. Dix to Governor Horatio Seymour, August 18, 1863 (Gen. Dix does not want to use Federal troops to enforce the draft in New York.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-general-john-dix-to-governor.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: August 18, 1863 (Sgt. Maj. Tenney is now 2nd Lt. Tenney, serving with Burnside.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-luman-harris_27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 18, 1863 (“There is heavy firing, day and night, on Wagner’s battery and Fort Sumter.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-18.html

General Robert E. Lee to Major-General Jeb Stuart, August 18, 1863 (Regarding Maj. Mosby.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/general-robert-e-lee-to-major-general.html

General Robert E. Lee to Brigadier General G. W. Custis Lee, August 18, 1863 (Gen. Lee is concerned about paying his taxes.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/01/general-robert-e-lee-to-brigadier_18.html

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Continued from July 13 (reply #18).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4167030/posts#18

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, August 19, 1863 (This is the letter referred to by both Sec. Welles and George Templeton Strong today=> https://www.nytimes.com/1863/08/19/archives/north-carolina-and-the-rebellion-a-remarkable-article-from-a.html?searchResultPosition=1 )

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-wednesday-august.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, August 19, 1863 (“Lee finds it as hard to recruit his army as I do mine.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to_18.html

Major-General John Sedgwick to Brigadier-General Lorenzo Thomas, August 19, 1863 (“I respectfully recommend Colonel C. H. Tompkins, 1st Rhode Island Artillery, for promotion as Brigadier-General of Volunteers”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/major-general-john-sedgwick-to.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: August 19, 1863 (“Mrs. Comly returned with her husband a few days ago. I wish Lucy was here also. Foolish business to send away our wives as was done.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/08/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 19, 1863 (“All the non-combatants have been requested to leave Charleston — and none are allowed to enter the city.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-19.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: Wednesday [August 19, 1863] (“Sumter has literally fallen, but it has not yielded; its battered walls bid defiance to the whole power of the North.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_40.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lincoln,” reply #12
John Hay, #13
George Templeton Strong, #14
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #15

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Continued from August 13 (reply #31).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4173681/posts#31

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Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, August 20, 1863 (“Information is received of the death of Governor Gurley.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday-august.html

Governor Horatio Seymour to Major-General John A. Dix, August 20, 1863 (The Governor is unhappy about being kept out of the loop about the New York draft.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/governor-horatio-seymour-to-major_30.html

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, August 20, 1863 (“General Grant has not gone to Mobile, he is now in Memphis or on his return to this point.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/colonel-thomas-kilby-smith-to-elizabeth_17.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, August 20, 1863 (“I came in about ten last evening, after four days’ vain endeavour to get a fight out of [Elijah] White’s [35th VA Cav] Battalion South and West of Leesburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_15.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 20, 1863 (Gen. Bragg’s situation in TN and Gen. Beauregard’s at Charleston.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-20.html