Harper’s Weekly – January 9, 1864

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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

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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/4207239/posts

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The Rebels Firing on Our Supply-Trains – 1-2
The Siege of Charleston – 1, 15-16
The New Year – 3
Mr. Phillips’s Speech – 3
First in the Field – 3
Our Men at Richmond – 3
Soldier’s Pay – 3-4
A Noble Public Interest – 4
A Mystery – 4
My Lord Hartington Again – 4
Western Students – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Army and Navy Items – 5
Unavoidably Postponed – 5
Head-Quarters of General Thomas – 6, 11
The Battle of Ringgold – 7, 11
Assault on Fort Saunders – 8, 11-12
Lookout – 9
“Very Hard Cash,” by Charles Reade, Ch. Ch. LVIII-LVIX – 9-11
The Upper and Lower River – 11
A Voice from Belle Isle – 11
The Scout’s Narration – 13-14
The Shadow – 14
A Cry from the Army – 14
The Great Western Sanitary Fair at Cincinnati, Ohio – 17-18
Humors of the Day - 19

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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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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, January 9, 1864 (Sen. Hale is still in trouble. Not Sec. Welles’s problem.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-january.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Walter Smith & Elizabeth Budd Smith, January 9, 1864 (Gen. T.K. Smith is sending his field library home to the family.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_8.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 9, 1864 (Capt. Wills lists 26 or so officers he has been commanded by so far.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/captain-charles-wright-wills-january-9.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: January 9, 1864 (“Fifteen or twenty carried out this morning dead and thirty or forty nearly so in blankets.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 9, 1864 (“Gen. Longstreet has preferred charges against Major-Gen. McLaws and another general of his command, and also asks to be relieved”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january-9.html

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Posts for 9 Jan 1864:

John Hay, reply #3
George Templeton Strong, #4
Mary B. Chesnut, #5
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Continued from January 1 (reply #32).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4205877/posts#32

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

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Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: January 10, 1864 (“A brass band over to-day giving us a tune. Dying off very fast on the island.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_23.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 10, 1864 (“Mr. Hunter is in the Secretary’s room every Sunday morning. Is there some grand political egg to be hatched?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/letters-fromgovernor-vance-received-to.html

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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, January 11, 1864 (Sec. Seward gave Sec. Welles a pile of documents relating to the Chesapeake affair.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-january.html

Proclamation of Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks, January 11, 1864 (Gen Banks calls for a election.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/proclamation-of-major-general-nathaniel.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: January 11, 1864 (“A plan afoot for escape, but am afraid to say anything of the particulars for fear of my diary being taken away from me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_24.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 11, 1864 (“Gen. E. S. Jones has captured several hundred of the enemy in Southwest Virginia, and Moseby’s men are picking them up by scores in Northern Virginia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_36.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: January 11, 1864 (“Left our camp at sun-up, got five miles and halted in the woods. We have been detailed to run two sawmills, and we are now putting up winter quarters there.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-january-11.html

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Today’s posts:

Mary Chesnut, reply #11
John Jackman, #12
George Templeton Strong, #13
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, January 12, 1864 (At a cabinet meeting, Sec. Welles suggests a peace initiative for Louisiana and Trans-Mississippi.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-january.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: January 12, 1864 (“Rebels fired a large shell over the prison to scare us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 12, 1864 (“The act suspending the writ of habeas corpus, before the Senate, if passed, will sufficiently complete the Dictatorship.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_4.html

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David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals