Harper’s Weekly – March 5, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | March 5, 1864

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

Absterdam 3” projectile => http://www.civilwarartillery.com/projectiles/rifled/IIIB3.htm

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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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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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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, March 10, 1864 (“The developments of fraud and swindling by contractors, and I fear by Navy agents and probably other officials, are represented to be astounding.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday-march.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, March 10, 1864 (“To-day Lieutenant General Grant arrived here. He has been very civil, and said nothing about superseding me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/major-general-george-g-meade-to_9.html

Major-General William T. Sherman to Lieutenant-General Grant, March 10, 1864 (“For God’s sake and your country’s sake come out of Washington. I foretold to General Halleck before he left Corinth the inevitable result, and I now exhort you to come out West.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-general-william-t-sherman-to.html

Major-General John Sedgwick to Brigadier-General Seth Williams, March 10, 1864 (Gen. Sedgwick defends Gen. Meade’s conduct at Gettysburg.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/major-general-john-sedgwick-to.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: March 10, 1864 (“Still traveling, and unloaded nights to sleep by the track. Rebel citizens and women improve every opportunity to see live Yankees.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_6.html

Diary of Private Alexander G. Downing: Friday, March 11, 1864 (“General Grant is now at the head of all the armies of the United States, just where we have wanted him ever since the surrender of Vicksburg.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/diary-of-private-alexander-g-downing_9.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 10, 1864 (Jones reprints a news article about the disposal of Col. Dahlgren’s body.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-10.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: March 10, 1864 (“There has been much excitement in Richmond about Kilpatrick’s and Dahlgren’s raids, and the death of the latter.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/12/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_31.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #37
“Team of Rivals,” #38
“Grant,” #39
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #40
Lincoln note to Col. of Ordnance, #41
John Hay, #42
Gen. Sherman letter to Mrs. Sherman, #43
John Jackman, #44
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #45

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Continued from February 19 (reply #37).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4217054/posts#37

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, March 11, 1864 (“There was in his deportment little of the dignity and bearing of the soldier but more of an air of business than his first appearance indicated, but he showed latent power.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-march-11.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, March 11, 1864 (“Home again with Lucy and all the boys — well and happy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_40.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 11, 1864 (“It is now supposed the clerks (who saved the city) will be kept here to defend it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-11.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #47
John G. Nicolay, #48
John Hay, #49
Mary B. Chesnut, #50
Links to 3 items at Civil War Notebook, #51