Harper’s Weekly – November 21, 1863

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | November 21, 1863

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

Continued from reply #40.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from reply #38.

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Jean Edward Smith, Grant

Continued from reply #41.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

Continued from reply #40.

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

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

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Magnificent coverage, Homer! We are in your debt.

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Continued from November 25 (reply #42).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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

Continued from Continued from November 24 (reply #27).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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John Hay to John G. Nicolay, November 26, 1863 (“The news is glorious. Nature was against us, but we won in her spite. The President is sick in bed. Bilious.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/john-hay-to-john-g-nicolay-november-26.html

Senator James W. Grimes to Elizabeth Nealley Grimes, November 26, 1863 (“I have been to church at King’s Chapel, and heard a good, patriotic sermon (Thanksgiving-day).”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/senator-james-w-grimes-to-elizabeth_27.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: November 26, 1863 (“Thanksgiving Day. Reports of fighting at Knoxville, Chattanooga, and with Lee. If the result is generally favorable, we shall see daylight plainer than ever”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/04/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_25.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: November 26, 1863 (“I shall be glad when the suspense shall end and we can move forward or back where we can find plenty to eat.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-luman-harris_27.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: November 26, 1863 (A prisoner on a work detail is shot dead.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_28.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Thursday, November 26, 1863 (“This morning the regiment moves down the river to a point opposite Hamburg Landing, where the three companies are ordered to report with the Second Division’s equipage.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_94.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 26, 1863 (“All agree in the conviction that the enemy has been defeated— perhaps badly beaten.” This despite dispatches from Bragg that suggest otherwise.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: November 26, 1863 (“When we had marched seven miles we heard cannonading. The enemy is trying to cross the river at Jacob’s Ford, but our boys kept them back.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/08/diary-of-private-louis-leon-november-26.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: November 26, 1863 (“Had 12 hogs killed today.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston_20.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: November 26, 1863 (“Mr. Appleton has just sent Brother a letter he had received from Gibbes, asking him to let Brother know he was a prisoner, and we have heard that he had been sent to Sandusky.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-sarah-morgan-november-26-1863.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #44
Johnny Green, #45
Map from Shelby Foote CW Narrative, “Lee,” #46
John Hay, #47
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #48

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Continued from November 26 (reply #44).

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from Continued from November 26 (reply #46).

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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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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Letter from E. R. Kennedy of the 6th Regiment. (Iowa man tells his parents his brother was killed at Chattanooga, and describes the battle.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/04/letter-from-e-r-kennedy-of-6th-regiment.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, November 27, 1863 (“sure enough, yesterday we kept our Thanksgiving by marching, horse, foot, and artillery, as hard as we could paddle towards Germanna Ford.” Map included.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_30.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: November 27, 1863 (“Near night moved to Bay Springs. Foster’s Brigade passed today on K. [Knoxville] road. Crossed Clinch River.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-luman-harris_64.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: November 27, 1863 (“From fifteen to twenty and twenty-five die every day and are buried just outside the prison with no coffins — nothing but canvas wrapped around them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_29.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Friday, November 27, 1863 (“Clothes wet, blankets drenched, and a cold piercing north wind blowing. Night comes on cold and gloomy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_33.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 27, 1863 (“a dispatch was received from Bragg, dated at Ringgold, Ga., some thirty miles from the battle-field of the day before.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_31.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: November 27, 1863 (Serious fighting during the day and forming line of battle at Mine Run at night.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/08/diary-of-private-louis-leon-november-27.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: November 27, 1863 (“Busy with putting up pork. Got a wretched cold.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston_69.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #50
Johnny Green, #51
“Lee,” #52
George Templeton Strong, #53
John Hay, #54
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #55