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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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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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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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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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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

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

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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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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, February 26, 1864 (“The President has been advised of the steps taken to forward the Chase operations. Circulars were put in his hands before signed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-february_17.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 26, 1864 (“Guards unusually strict.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_24.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 26, 1864 (“Dispatches announce heavy skirmishing in the vicinity of Dalton —and Gen. Johnston’s army was in line of battle.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_36.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: February 26, 1864 (“People are trading as far as possible, instead of paying money. As for example, the shoemaker tells me that he won’t make a pair of shoes for me unless I send him a load of wood”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston_66.html