Harper’s Weekly – September 19, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | September 19, 1863

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Continued from September 19 (reply #4)

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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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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Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, September 20, 1863 (“General Grant is the man of the nation, that the eyes of the nation are turned upon him, that he has a world-wide celebrity”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_25.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, September 20, 1863 (Gen. Smith nearly comes to grief as two horses fight above him.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_26.html

Senator James W. Grimes to Elizabeth Nealley Grimes, September 20, 1863 (“I have spoken every day since I was at Des Moines, in the open air, to large crowds, and generally in a strong gale of wind.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/senator-james-w-grimes-to-elizabeth.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: September 20, 1863 (Trouble in the West Virginia mountains. Rebel deserters and desperate Union men.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_35.html

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: September 20, 1863 (“I have the promise of one next week, and am congratulating myself on the prospect of once more seeing home”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/06/diary-of-sergeant-david-l-day-september.html

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, September 20, 1863 (“News came that a battle is being fought on the Chickamauga river, to the south of Chattanooga, with heavy loss on both sides.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/diary-of-alexander-g-downing-sunday_20.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 20, 1863 (“I hear citizens on the street to-day talking about subverting the government. I believe they have no plan; and as yet it amounts to nothing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_57.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 20, 1863 (“In speaking distance of the Yankees.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-louis-leon-september_50.html

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Today’s initial posts:

West Point Atlas map, “Never Call Retreat,” reply #20
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #21
John Jackman, #22
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #23

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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

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

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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

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

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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

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The orders “close up on” and “ support” meant very different things.

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The orders “close up on” and “ support” meant very different things.

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Continued from September 20 (reply #21)

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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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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Continued from September 3 (reply #28).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4178597/posts#28

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, September 21, 1863 (“the Rebels have concentrated a large force to overpower Rosecrans and recapture Chattanooga. While this has been doing, Halleck has frittered away time and dispersed our forces.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-september_31.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: September 21, 1863 (“’Rosecrans [at Chickamauga] has been badly beaten’! Such is the shock the dispatch gives us this evening.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_67.html

Diary of Alexander G. Downing: Monday, September 21, 1863 (“It is reported that the battle south of Chattanooga is still in progress, and also that our gunboats are throwing shells into Charleston, South Carolina.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/diary-of-alexander-g-downing-monday_21.html

George L. Stearns, writing from Nashville, Tennessee, September 21, 1863 (“Yesterday they impressed some men for work, and in the process shot a slave, who, I learn, will probably die.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/11/george-l-stearns-writing-from-nashville.html

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, Monday Evening, September 21, 1863 (“thanks to the war, the Atlantic and the Pacific States have been bound far closer together than of old, and are every day drawn nearer and nearer.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william_11.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 21, 1863 (“If Bragg beats Rosecrans utterly, the consequences will be momentous. If beaten by him, he sinks to rise no more.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_21.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: September 21, 1863 (“Our regiment was relieved to-day by the 3d Alabama, of [Gen. Cullen A.] Battle’s Brigade.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-louis-leon-september_11.html

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Today’s posts:

“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” reply #33
John Jackman, #34
“Lincoln,” #35
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #36

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Continued from September 19 (reply #7).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from September 19 (reply #10).

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