Harper’s Weekly – February 6, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 6, 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/4213832/posts

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Thanks to Grant – 1-2
Our Foreign Relations – 2
Pride and Sensitiveness – 2
A Loud Cry – 2
General Butler – 2
The Brown Code – 2-3
Old Dogs – 3
Literary – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
Army and Navy Items – 4
Our Youngest Soldier – 4
Saltpeter Cave Near Chattanooga – 4, 6
A Railroad “Accident” – 4, 14
Camp of the New York 103D – 4, 13
A Stampede of Army Horses – 5
General Francis J. Herron – 7
“Weep Thou No More!” – 7
Matty Esmaine’s Raffle – 7-8
Elsie Leonard – 8-9
Halt of a Wagon Train – 10
Hospital and Camp Incidents: The Sanitary Commission among the Soldiers, No. II – 11
A Night in a Snow-Drift – 11-12
About Cats – 12, 17
The Stag Dance – 15
A Veteran on Furlough – 15-16
Humors of the Day – 17
Lily’s Ball – 17
Onward – 17
Check – 20

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Continued from January 15 (reply #32).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4209227/posts#32

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinge

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Continued from February 3 (reply #19).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4213832/posts#19

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

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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, February 6, 1864 (“This is the second anniversary of the fall of Fort Henry. How little I dreamed then the war would continue this long. But so it is, and no clear sight is yet had of its close.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_31.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 6, 1864 (“Bossieux told us himself, as we came inside, that he didn’t blame us in the least for trying to get away, but he was obliged to punish us for the attempt.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_8.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 6, 1864 (“Gen. Pickett, finding Newbern impregnable, has fallen back, getting off his prisoners, etc. But more troops are going to North Carolina.”)

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

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Today’s posts:

“Lincoln,” reply #3
John Hay, #4
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #5
George Templeton Strong, #6
Links to 3 items at Civil War Notebook, #7

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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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Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, February 7, 1864 (“General Grant has determined to go himself in command of the forces to operate against Longstreet, and we shall leave here for Knoxville within ten or twelve days.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, February 7, 1864 (“The capture of General Scammon and two of his staff, will postpone my coming a few days, only a few days, I hope.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, February 7, 1864 (Lt. Col. Lyman took part in a crossing of the Rapidan.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_12.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 7, 1864 (“These women here have so disgusted me with the use of tobacco that I have determined to abandon it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/captain-charles-wright-wills-february-7.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Sunday, February 7, 1864 (“It appears that Gen. Butler is marching up the Peninsula (I have not heard the estimated number of his army) toward Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-sunday.html

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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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Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, February 8, 1864 (“I have ever tried to pursue an upright, honorable course through life”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_4.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 8, 1864 (“Corp. McCartin is missing from the island and am confident from what I have seen that he has escaped and by the help of Lieut. Bossieux.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_9.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 8, 1864 (“It is said Congress is finally about to authorize martial law. My cabbages are coming up in my little hot-bed—half barrel.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_64.html

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, February 8, 1864 (“The Yankees advanced to the Rapidan River yesterday and we were ordered off to met them. After some little fighting, they retired.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/dr-spencer-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother_6.html

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Today’s posts:

John Hay, reply #12
George Templeton Strong, #13
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Four Mathew Brady photos of President Lincoln.

"The Penny Profile". Berger was the manager of Mathew Brady's Gallery when he took multiple photographs at this Tuesday sitting. In 1909 Victor David Brenner used this image and one other similar image from this sitting to model the Lincoln cent.

In 1895 Robert Todd Lincoln wrote "I have always thought the Brady photograph of my father, of which I attach a copy, to be the most satisfactory likeness of him."

An original cracked plate, just under the size known as "imperial". The Lincoln portrait on the current United States five-dollar bill is based on this photograph.

Presumably taken at the same session as the three images just above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_of_Abraham_Lincoln

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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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Congressman James A. Garfield to Corydon E. Fuller, February 9, 1864 (“I grow weary, very weary, at the prospect of a life spent as I have been spending mine for the past five or six years.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/congressman-james-garfield-to-corydon-e_10.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, February 9, 1864 (“I doubt not my confirmation, however. Standing as I do in the near relation to General Grant”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_6.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 9, 1864 (“Great news this morning. A raid is being made on Richmond by Kilpatrick, Rebels manning their forts in sight of us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_10.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 9, 1864 (“The enemy cannot get men again except by dragging them out, unless they should go to war with France—a not improbable event.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_44.html

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Today’s posts:

Four Lincoln photos from Brady’s studio, reply #16
John Hay, #17
Mary B. Chesnut, #18
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #19