Harper’s Weekly – February 27, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 27, 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/4218677/posts

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Quaker Exemption – 2
Delenda Est Carthago – 2
France and the United States – 2
The Democratic Party – 2-3
About Flowers – 3
Profanity – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
Army and Navy Items – 4
The Disappointed Showman – 4
Fire in Colt’s Armory– 5-6, 9
Hospital Trains – 7-8
A White Hand and a Black Thumb, in Thirteen Chapters, Ch. IX-XI – 9-10
The Heart of Miriam Clyde – 10-11
George Washington – 12
Humors of the Day – 13
My Wife’s Father – 13-14
The Romance of a Poor Young Woman – 14-15
The Malden Bank Murder – 15-16
Shelling of a Blockade Runner – 16
The Paris Fashions for February – 17-19

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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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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

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Continued from February 25 (reply #34).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4218677/posts#34

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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

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Continued from Continued from December 25, 1863 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4204432/posts#39

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Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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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