Harper’s Weekly – January 23, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | January 23, 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

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/4210576/posts

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The Great Storm in the West – 1, 9
Found Dead – 2
William Makepeace Thackeray – 2
The Governor’s Message – 2
The Police Report – 2-3
Resolutions of Respect – 3
The Old Sophism – 3
Railroad Annoyances – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
Army and Navy Items – 4
The Recruiting Business – 4
Nego Soldiers Liberating Slaves – 5, 7
Under the Flag – 6-7
A White Hand and a Black Thumb, in Thirteen Chapters, Ch. I-II – 7-8
The Two Travelers – 8-9
Humors of the Day – 9
The Real Murderer – 9, 11-13
Return of Veteran Volunteers on Furlough – 10
Ex-Governor Stanford, of California – 13
The Steamer “Brazil” Fired Upon by Guerrillas – 13
William M. Thackeray – 13, 16
The Russian Fleet at the United States Navy Yard, Mare Island, California – 14
Paris Fashions for January, 1864 – 15
Archbishop Hughes – 15
The “Rappahannock” – 15-16
Daboll’s Fog-Trumpet – 17
Obstructions in Charleston Harbor – 17-18

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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

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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, January 23, 1864 (Welles sends a contractor found guilty of fraud against the navy to Fort Lafayette for a year’s imprisonment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-january_18.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, January 23, 1864 (“The whole country, besides the mud, is now ornamented with stumps, dead horses and mules, deserted camps, and thousands upon thousands of crows.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_7.html

A Letter from Adjutant E. H. King (The 15th Iowa Infantry Volunteers re-enlisting and drilling at Vicksburg.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/08/letter-from-adjutant-e-h-king.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 23, 1864 (“The Secretary of War has authorized Mr. Boute, President of the Chatham Railroad, to exchange tobacco through the enemy’s lines for bacon.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: January 23, 1864 (“Wrote a letter which I mean to try to get through the lines to Julia. Weather mild and fine.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston_62.html

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The New York Times:

Cheerleading for unnecessary wars for over 175 years.

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letter, reply #3
John Hay, #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
George Templeton Strong, #6
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #7

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This is the Harper’s Weekly thread.

[cowboyusa]

South Carolina should have thought of that. They payed th3 price.

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Oh when? Oh when, will this cruel war finally be over?

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Continued from January 10 (reply #8).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4209227/posts#8

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

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

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Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, January 24, 1864 (A dispatch from Gen. Foster regarding Longstreet’s advance on Knoxville does not much impress Gen. Rawlins - or presumably, Gen. Grant).

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_21.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard: January 24, 1864 (“I trust we shall have stronger and more efficient armies in the field this spring than ever before.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/07/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: January 24, 1864 (“We are all troubled with heart-burn, sour stomach, &c. Drink weak lye made from ashes for it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_2.html

Charles Eliot Norton to Frederick Law Olmstead, January 24, 1864 (“Mr. Lincoln continues to gain the confidence of the people, and it looks now as if there would be little opposition to his reelection.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/charles-eliot-norton-to-frederick-law.html

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis January 24, 1864 (“But if we merely take Richmond, one more serious campaign at least will be before us, and the country will feel the weight of the war more than ever before”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 24, 1864 (“If this be so, and compulsory funding be adopted, there will soon be no redundancy of paper money, and a magical change of values will take place.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_46.html

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Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #13
John Hay, #14
John Jackman, #15
George Templeton Strong, #16
Mary B. Chesnut, #17
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #18

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