Harper’s Weekly – January 30, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | January 30, 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/4212249/posts

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Burning of the Compania at Santiago, Chile – 1-2, 10
Rebel Prospects – 3
The New Uprising – 3
Slave Children – 3
Delays on the New Haven Railroad – 3-4
Licking Boots – 4
Thackeray’s Grave – 4
The Good Samaritan – 4
Literary – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Army and Navy Items – 5
Cold Comfort – 5
Snowy Morning – on Picket – 6
White and Colored Slaves – 7, 10
A White Hand and a Black Thumb, in Thirteen Chapters, Ch. III-IV – 8-9
Hospital and Camp Incidents: The Sanitary Commission among the Soldiers, No. I – 9-10
Turning Over a New Leaf – 10, 12-13
Central Park in Winter – 11
Humors of the Day – 13-15
Armstrong’s 600-Pounder – 14, 18
Launch of the “Minotaur” – 15, 18
The Gun-Boat “Eutaw” – 16
Rebel Submarine Battery – 16-18
The Moonlight Long Ago – 18

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, January 30, 1864 (Sec. Welles and Sec. Seward discuss dealings with the British Minister to the U.S. over captured British blockade runners.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-january.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, January 30, 1864 (The Nashville theater)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_24.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, January 30, 1864 (Extract) (Gen. Grant would rather remain a Maj. Gen. in the field than a Lt. Gen. in Washington, according to Gen. Rawlins.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 30, 1864 (“The Senate has passed a new Conscription Act, putting all residents between the ages of eighteen and fifty-live in the military service for the war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_2.html

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, January 30, 1864 (“The weather has been fine recently and there have been some indications of a move.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/dr-spencer-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother_36.html

A Captured Letter. Sweet but Sensible. (“I will appeal to you to hear my request. Resign your commission, return home and enjoy the charms of your own Amelia, whose life is bound up in her adored Herbert.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/06/captured-letter-sweet-but-sensible.html

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

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Continued from January 28 (reply #32).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4212249/posts#32

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

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

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Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, January 31, 1864 (Gen. Rawlins wishes that Gen. Grant would not attend public functions held in his honor, for reasons left unsaid.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_27.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, January 31, 1864 (Col. Lyman meets an elderly slave and ponders the future of the peculiar institution.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_9.html

Major General William T. Sherman to Major R. M. Sawyer, January 31, 1864 (Gen. Sherman on the right of secession.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/08/major-general-william-t-sherman-to.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 31, 1864 (Jones on his garden, a complication arising from the conscription law, and Jews fleeing Richmond.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letter to Gen. Banks, reply #5
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #6
John Hay, #7
Mary B. Chesnut, #8
George Templeton Strong, #9
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #10

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

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The Pomeroy Circular, February 1864 (Reasons to nominate Sec. Chase for president instead of President Lincoln)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-pomeroy-circular-february-1864.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: February 1, 1864 (Sec. Welles deals with corruption in the Navy Department.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-gideon-welles-february-1-1864.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, February 1, 1864 (“If we had supplies and the reenlisted regiments were back from furlough, we could now strike such a blow as it would be impossible for the enemy to recover from”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_28.html

Francis Lieber to Judge Thayer, February 1, 1864 (“’I go with my State’ was the stereotyped phrase, no matter whether that State went for treason or not”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/francis-lieber-to-judge-thayer-february.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 1, 1864 (“Gen. Pillow has applied for the command of two brigades for operations between Gen. Johnston’s and Gen. Polk’s armies, protecting the flanks of both”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_76.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letters, reply #12
John Hay, #13
George Templeton Strong, #14
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #15

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, February 2, 1864 (Villainous congressmen, contractors and newsmen are waging war against the Navy Dept.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-february.html

Francis Lieber to Senator Charles Sumner, February 2, 1864 (“There is now a plan of mine probably to be realized in Columbia College, for which I have written, spoken, worried, for five years.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/francis-lieber-to-senator-charles.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 2, 1864 (“The weather is beautiful and spring-like again, and we may soon have some news both from Tennessee and North Carolina.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_59.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 2, 1864 (“While hard at work in the woods, hauling stocks for the mill, my furlough came, for eighteen days. So I was relieved.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-february-2.html

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

Continued from January 13 (reply #21).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4209227/posts#21

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from January 31 (reply #6).

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