Posted on 02/27/2024 6:49:27 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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
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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4218677/posts
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, February 27, 1864 (“Seward told me in a whisper that we had met a serious reverse in Florida. It is [not] mentioned in the papers.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday_17.html
Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, February 27, 1864 (“Fire, havoc, desolation, and ruin have marked our course. The blow has been terrible, crushing. The enemy have fled before us like frightened deer.” “To-day is the twenty-seventh of the march” I think he means February, but not positive-HJS)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_11.html
Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, February 27, 1864 (“I have been a good deal occupied with an attempt I am about making, to send a force of cavalry into Richmond to liberate our prisoners.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/major-general-george-g-meade-to_31.html
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 27, 1864 (“Were all searched again to-day but still keep my diary, although expecting to lose it every day; would be quite a loss, as the longer I write and remain a prisoner the more attached am I to my record of passing events.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_25.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 27, 1864 (“The “associated press” publishes an unofficial dispatch, giving almost incredible accounts of Gen. Forrest’s defeat of Grierson’s cavalry, 10,000 strong, with only 2000”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_13.html
Continued from February 25 (reply #34).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4218677/posts#34
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 28, 1864 (“Had the honor (?) of seeing Jefferson Davis again and part of his congress to-day.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_27.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: between January 19 & February 28, 1864 (The re-enlistment furloughs for the 7th Illinois are over and the regiment is proceeding to Pulaski, TN)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_29.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 28, 1864 (“No war news; nor denial or confirmation of the wonderful victory of Forrest in Mississippi. That he captured the enemy’s artillery and drove them back, is official.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_10.html
Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: February 28, 1864 (McGuire relates the sad story of a refugee from Fredericksburg.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire.html
Today’s posts:
“Lincoln,” reply #6
John G. Nicolay, #7
John Hay, #8
John Jackman, #9
Johnny Green, #10
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #11
Continued from February 22 (reply #16). See the editorial “Popular Manifestations for Mr. Lincoln” in today’s NY Times.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4218677/posts#16
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Continued from Continued from December 25, 1863 (reply #39).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4204432/posts#39
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, February 29, 1864 (“A strong effort is on foot by naval officers who have been retired and their friends to set aside the law and the action under which they were retired.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-february_17.html
Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, February 29, 1864 (“My cavalry expedition for Richmond got off last night, and at 2 A. M. . . . I trust they will be successful; it will be the greatest feat of the war”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/major-general-george-g-meade-to.html
Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, February 29, 1864 (Col. Hayes in Ohio on furlough.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia_1.html
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: February 29, 1864 (“The occasion of the excitement among the rebels is that Dahlgreen is making a raid on Richmond, acting in conjunction with Kilpatrick, for the purpose of liberating prisoners.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_29.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, February 29, 1864 (“All quiet to-day; the officers all busy equipping their companies. Soon we will be in the saddle in obedience to the call of the bugle.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/04/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose.html
De Witt C. Chipman to Abraham Lincoln, February 29, 1864 (“Enclosed find a circular signed by S C Pomeroy and franked by Blow.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/de-witt-c-chipman-to-abraham-lincoln.html
Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: February 29, 1864 (“Not having made any ice-cream since war-times, the child had never seen any, and so called it white mush. The only luxury I long for is real coffee.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston_29.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 29, 1864 (“There is a rumor that Frederick’s Hall, between this city and Fredericksburg, was taken to-day by a detachment of the enemy’s cavalry, an hour after Gen. Lee passed on his way to the army.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february.html
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