Harper’s Weekly – February 13, 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/4215365/posts

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Off Mobile – 1, 7-8, 12
King Cotton – 2
Uncle Sam’s Pence – 2
A Gross Injustice – 2
How to Do It – 2
Senator Davis – 2
Military Surprises – 3
Not Too Fine a Point – 3
An Apostle of Peace – 3
Thackeray – 3, 18
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
Army and Navy Items – 4
A Real Trouble – 4
Evacuation of Brownsville by the Confederates – 5
The Lindell Hotel of St. Louis, Missouri – 6, 17-18
A White Hand and a Black Thumb, in Thirteen Chapters, Ch. V-VI – 9-11
Humors of the Day – 11
Shadowy Misgivings – 13-14
Ben’s Bear – 14
Hospital and Camp Incidents: The Sanitary Commission among the Soldiers, No. III – 14-17
Remembrance – 17
General Meigs – 17
Indian Chieftains from the Far West – 17, 18
The Lover’s Wish – 18

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With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, February 13, 1864 (“But the whole city of New York is alike leprous and rotten. How can such a place be regenerated and purified? What is the remedy?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, February 13, 1864 (On his 33rd birthday, Gen. Rawlins looks at his life so far.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_10.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 13, 1864 (“Was told that six hundred are to start for Georgia to-day and subsequently six hundred every day until all are removed from Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_14.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 13, 1864 (“the correspondence between the President and Gen. Johnston, last spring and summer, indicates constant dissensions between the Executive and the generals.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_33.html

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Today’s posts:

John Nicolay, reply #3
John Hay, #4
Mary Chesnut, #5
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Continued from February 3 (reply #18).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4213832/posts#18

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from February 6 (reply #5).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4215365/posts#5

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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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, February 14, 1864 – 7 p.m. (Returning from leave, Gen. Meade stops in Washington, meets with Lincoln, Stanton, John Palmer Usher, and others.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-george-g-meade-to_26.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, February 14, 1864 (“So keep not the picture of me, dearest. It is false to my heart, though it may be true to my face.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_11.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 14, 1864 (“Six hundred sent away to day, some say to our lines while others think to Georgia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_15.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 14, 1864 (“great apprehensions are felt for the fate of Mississippi—said to be penetrated to its center by an overwhelming force of the enemy. It is defended, however, or it is to be, by Gen. (Bishop) Polk.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_34.html

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Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #8
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #9
John Hay, #10
Mary Chesnut, #11
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #12

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

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With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

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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: Monday, February 15, 1864 (“I think there are indications that Chase intends to press his pretensions as a candidate, and much of the Treasury machinery and the special agencies have that end in view.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-february.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, February 15, 1864 (“General Grant talks some of going to Chattanooga this week. I don’t know whether he will or not, but if he goes I shall go also.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_12.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 15, 1864 (“The enemy have retreated again on the Peninsula. It is said Meade’s army is falling back on Washington.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_3.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: February 15, 1864 (“The clerks’ salaries, too, have been raised to $250 per month, which sounds very large; but when we remember that flour is $300 per barrel, it sinks into insignificance.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_27.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letter to Gen. Sickles, reply #14
John G. Nicolay, #15
John Hay, #16
George Templeton Strong, #17
Mary B. Chesnut, #18
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #19