Harper’s Weekly – February 20, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 20, 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/4217054/posts

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Gen. Grant Crossing the Cumberland – 1, 7
God Bless You, Soldier! – 2
Constitutional Opposition – 2
A Short Sermon upon a Recent Text – 2
Masks and Faces – 2
General Grant – 2
The Soldiers’ Vote – 2-3
A Rule that Works One Way Only – 3
Common Sense – 3
A Sign of the Times – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Quite Satisfactory – 4
Railroad Accident – 5
The Death of Guerrilla Burroughs – 5-6
The Flag of the Union – 7
A White Hand and a Black Thumb, in Thirteen Chapters, Ch. VII-VIII – 7-9
Humors of the Day – 9
A Military Ball – 9
Becky Vane’s Valentine – 9, 11
St. Valentine’s Day – 10, 12-13
In the “Libey” – 11-12
The New Rebel Ram – 13
Columbia, S.C. – 13-14
Fort Fisher, N.C. – 15-16
The Fire in Colt’s Armory – 15-16
The Singers – 16
Army and Navy Items – 16

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Continued from February 6 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4215365/posts#3

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from February 14 (reply #9).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4217054/posts#9

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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, February 20, 1864 (“Senator Hale labors hard to find fault with the Department; is searching, as with a lantern, for errors and mistakes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday.html

Major General Ulysses S. Grant to Jesse Root Grant, February 20, 1864 (“I am not a candidate for any office. All I want is to be left alone to fight this war out; fight all rebel opposition and restore a happy Union in the shortest possible time.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/major-general-ulysses-s-grant-to-jesse_23.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 20, 1864 (“All sorts of rumors afloat, but still we stay here. Strange officers come over and look at us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_17.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 20, 1864 (“Brig.-Gen. Wm. Preston has been sent to Mexico, with authority to recognize and treat with the new Emperor Maximilian.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_37.html

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Today’s posts:

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

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Continued from February 19 (reply #36)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4217054/posts#36

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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

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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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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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, February 21, 1864 (“The army is overrun with women. There is to be a grand ball to-morrow at the headquarters of the Second Corps, and I believe half of Washington is coming down to attend.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-george-g-meade-to_29.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 21, 1864 (“I know my ribs stick out, being covered by skin only, for the want of sufficient food; while there is enough for all, if it were equally distributed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_91.html

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Today’s posts:

“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” reply #9
Map from Shelby Foote’s Civil War Narrative, John Hay, #10
John G. Nicolay, #11
Links to 2 items at Civil War Narrative, #12

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Continued from February 20 (reply #3).

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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Continued from January 13 (reply #20).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4209227/posts#20

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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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Continued from February 21 (reply #9)

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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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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: Monday, February 22, 1864 (“It will be more dangerous in its recoil than its projectile. That is, it will damage Chase more than Lincoln.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-february.html

Salmon P. Chase to Abraham Lincoln, February 22, 1864 (“I had no knowledge of the existence of this letter before I saw it in the Union.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/salmon-p-chase-to-abraham-lincoln.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, February 22, 1864 (“General Meade is in excellent spirits and cracks a great many jokes and tells stories. You can’t tell how different he is when he has no movement on his mind, for then he is like a firework, always going bang at someone”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_15.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 22, 1864 (“Col. [Robert A. Alston] asks permission of the Secretary of War to go into Southern Illinois, where, he is confident, if he cannot contribute to precipitate civil war, he can, at least, bring out thousands of men who will fight for the Southern cause.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_12.html