Harper’s Weekly – September 12, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | September 12, 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/4181317/posts

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The Neutral English Gentleman – 1
Anglophobia – 2-3
The Sibley Expedition – 2, 6, 15
The Mexican Empire – 3
The Lounger – 3-4
Army and Navy Items – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Retribution – 5
Chattanooga – 7, 15
Rebel Torpedoes – 8
A Cruel Case – 8-9
Doomed to Disappointment – 9-10
For Us – 10
General Q.A. Gilmore – 11, 15
Fort Sumter – 12, 15-17
A Reminiscence of Port Hudson – 13
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. XXXII (Continued)-XXXIII – 13-15
“More Light!” – 15
My Independence Day – 18
Humors of the Day – 18

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The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War, Chief Editor, Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito

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

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, September 12, 1863

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

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Saturday, September 12, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_1.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 12, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_13.html

Lieutenant-General James Longstreet to Louis T. Wigfall, September 12, 1863

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/lieutenant-general-james-longstreet-to.html

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September 12 posts:

West Point Atlas map, reply #3
John Jackman, #4
Johnny Green, #5
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #6
George Templeton Strong, #7
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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Continued from August 7 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4172023/posts#25

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume One

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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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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, September 13, 1863 (Still the great question as to whether Lee is withdrawing is unsettled”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to_28.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: September 13, 1863 (“Sunday a year ago was the 14th. South Mountain and its losses and glories. How the sadness for the former fades and the satisfaction with the latter grows!

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_94.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, September 13, 1863 (“I learned yesterday that the President was very weak on the subject of protecting black troops and their officers; said the Administration was not ready to insist upon their having equal rights with others”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to-john_14.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, September 13, 1863 (“the soldiers commence on the mill, and soon it is destroyed. No more guerrilla bands will ever grind their corn here.”)

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

G. Pilsbury: September 13, 1863 (“The people need to be instructed, encouraged, and in many cases compelled to labor.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/g-pilsbury-september-13-1863.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 13, 1863 (“Gen. Lee is at Orange Court House, and probably will not leave Virginia. He will still have an army of 50,000 men to oppose Meade; and Richmond may possibly be held another winter.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_17.html

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, September 14, 1863 (“The President called a special Cabinet council this morning at eleven. The course pursued by certain judges is, he says, defeating the draft.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-september.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John A. McClernand, September 14, 1863 (President Lincoln isn’t going to open an inquiry into Gen. McClernand’s dismissal at this time.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/12/edwin-m-stanton-to-major-general-john.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Major Henry L. Higginson, September 14, 1863 (“Since Shaw’s death I have had a personal feeling in the matter to see black troops made a success; a success which would justify the use (or sacrifice) made of them at Wagner.”)

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

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, September 14, 1863 (“Company H to-day capture the noted rebel Ross, once a member of the State Legislature.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_79.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 14, 1863 (“Bragg is falling back toward Atlanta, and Burnside says, officially, that he has taken Cumberland Gap, 1200 prisoners, with 14 guns, without a fight.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_20.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 14, 1863 (“Left camp this morning at 7, marched twelve miles and halted. Hear firing in front on the Rapidan, at Summerville Ford. Here all night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-louis-leon-september_1.html

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, September 14, 1863 (“The President called a special Cabinet council this morning at eleven. The course pursued by certain judges is, he says, defeating the draft.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-september.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John A. McClernand, September 14, 1863 (President Lincoln isn’t going to open an inquiry into Gen. McClernand’s dismissal at this time.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/12/edwin-m-stanton-to-major-general-john.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Major Henry L. Higginson, September 14, 1863 (“Since Shaw’s death I have had a personal feeling in the matter to see black troops made a success; a success which would justify the use (or sacrifice) made of them at Wagner.”)

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

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, September 14, 1863 (“Company H to-day capture the noted rebel Ross, once a member of the State Legislature.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_79.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 14, 1863 (“Bragg is falling back toward Atlanta, and Burnside says, officially, that he has taken Cumberland Gap, 1200 prisoners, with 14 guns, without a fight.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_20.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 14, 1863 (“Left camp this morning at 7, marched twelve miles and halted. Hear firing in front on the Rapidan, at Summerville Ford. Here all night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-louis-leon-september_1.html

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, September 15, 1863 (The question is raised whether the executive can suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus without Congressional action.”)

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

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General Stephen A. Hurlbut, September 15, 1863 – 5 p.m. (All the troops that can possibly be spared in Western Tennessee and on the Mississippi River should be sent without delay to assist General Rosecrans on the Tennessee River. Urge Sherman to act with all possible promptness.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to-major.html

Brigadier General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, September 15, 1863 (The only alloy being the unfortunate accident to General Grant, who, I am happy to say, is safely at these headquarters, though I fear his accident will confine him to his bed for a good while.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_24.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw, September 15, 1863 (“I have had a very pleasant hour with Governor Andrew. He talked about Rob and how very fond he had become of him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_22.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Tuesday, September 15, 1863 (An encounter with guerrillas.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_95.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 15, 1863 (“Gov. (just elected) R. L. Caruthers (of Tennessee) begs that 20,000 men from Lee’s army be sent out on Rosecrans’s left flank to save Tennessee, which alone can save the Confederacy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 15, 1863 (“Still some firing in front. We are in reserve. I went to see the fight. I saw the enemy very plainly, and thus I spent my New Year’s Day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-louis-leon-september.html

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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: Wednesday, September 16, 1863 (“Dispatches and also a private letter from Dahlgren speak of the assault and repulse at Sumter.”)

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

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, September 16, 1863 (“The enemy seem disposed to keep quiet the other side of the Rapidan, and to let me hold the country between that river and the Rappahannock, which I took from them on Sunday, including Culpeper Court House.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-george-g-meade-to_29.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Eleanor Jackson, September 16, 1863 (“I had occasion to see Stanton to-day, — and introduced [the subject of] coloured prisoners, of course.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_23.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: September 16, 1863 (“Report that Longstreet and Ewell were at or near Jonesboro on Va. line.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-luman-harris_31.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Wednesday, September 16, 1863 (“The shouts from the soldiers that roll from the camp to-night are: ‘Hurrah for Gilmore!’ and ‘More Greek fire for Charleston!’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_12.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 16, 1863 (“Our cavalry fell back several miles, and a battle is looked for immediately, near Orange C. H., where Gen. Lee awaits the foe in an advantageous position.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_9.html

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, September 16, 1863 (“It now appears that the Yankees have all gone back and that they sent only their cavalry forward. We have a very strong position here, and it is doubtful if they will advance this way.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/04/dr-spencer-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother_63.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 16, 1863 (“To-day there was a man shot for desertion. Eight balls passed through him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-louis-leon-september_36.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: September 16, 1863 (“Room-rent in Richmond is enormously high. We may get one very small cottage here for forty dollars per month, but it has the reputation of being unhealthy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_9.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