Harper’s Weekly – February 20, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 20, 1864

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Today’s posts:

“Lincoln,” reply #14
Lincoln note to Missouri Rep. Benjamin Loan, #15
“Team of Rivals,” #16
John Hay, #17
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #18
John Jackman, #19
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #20

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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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Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan

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

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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 Gideon Welles: Tuesday, February 23, 1864 (“Chase did not come to the Cabinet-meeting to-day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-february_13.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 23, 1864 (“Rebels are trying to get recruits from among us for their one-horse Confederacy. Believe that one or two have deserted our ranks and gone over. Bad luck to them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_21.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 23, 1864 (“A letter from Gen. Maury indicates now that Mobile is surely to be attacked. He says they may force a passage at Grant’s Pass, which is thirty miles distant”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_11.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: February 23, 1864 (“Reached camp to-day, and found that my regiment had marched once since I left. This was the first I missed since my regiment was formed. Nothing more this month.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-louis-leon-february-23.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: February 23, 1864 (“This day ten years ago my blessed mother went from us to Heaven. I have thought much about her to-day, and have recalled the anguish of losing her.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston_99.html

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Today’s posts:

John Jackman, reply #22
Johnny Green, #23
Mary Chesnut, #24
John Hay, #25
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #26

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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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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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An Act to Amend an Act Entitled “An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the National Forces, and for Other Purposes,” Approved March Third, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-three, February 24, 1864

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/an-act-to-amend-act-entitled-act-for.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, February 24, 1864 (“I am pressing on the matter of Wilkes. He and his family are moving to extricate him from the results of his own insubordination and folly.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-wednesday_13.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, February 24, 1864 (“The ball of the Second Corps came off on the 22d, and was quite a success. There were present about three hundred ladies, many coming from Washington for the occasion”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-george-g-meade-to_30.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, February 24, 1864 (Includes a diary of Lowell’s activity against Mosby and other guerrillas in late 1863.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to-john.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, February 24, 1864 (Gen. Meade’s staff attends “a review of the 2d Corps gotten up in honor of Governor Sprague.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_17.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 24, 1864 (“Papers state that Richmond is threatened, and that Kilpatrick’s cavalry is making a raid on the place for the purpose of releasing us and burning the town.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_22.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 24, 1864 (“both Sherman and the cavalry are now in full retreat—running out of the country faster than they advanced into it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_15.html

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Today’s posts:

John Jackman, reply #28
George Templeton Strong, #29
John Hay, #30
Mary Chesnut, #31
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #32

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Continued from February 22 (reply #14). The message that the people of Louisiana were “willing that the State should be free, but they cannot stand Radicalism” was written in a letter from Cuthbert Bullitt to O.H. Browning on this date.

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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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

John J. Craven Find a Grave => https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11012042/john-joseph-craven

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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: Thursday, February 25, 1864 (On Sec. Chase: “I do not think he has any sound, well-matured, comprehensive plan of finance, or correct ideas of money and currency”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday_13.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 25, 1864 (“We divide the night up into four watches and take turns standing guard while the other three sleep, to protect ourselves from Captain Moseby’s gang of robbers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_23.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 25, 1864 (“The President has certainly conferred on Bragg the position once (1862) occupied by Lee”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_59.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lincoln,” reply #34
Lincoln note to Sec. Stanton, #35
John G. Nicolay, #36
John Hay, #37
John Jackman, #38
Links to 3 items at Civil War Notebook, #39