Harper’s Weekly – March 19, 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/4223681/posts

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Generals Kilpatrick and Custer – 1, 5, 14
The Sentinel on Morris Island – 2
The Opening of the Campaign of ‘64 – 2
The Question and the Answer – 2
The Twentieth U.S. Colored Regiment – 2
Ulric Dahlgren – 2-3
Thomas Starr King – 3
A Faithful Widow – 3
Literary – 3
What Was It? – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
Army and Navy Items – 4
A Hint for the Sanitary Fair – 4
The Rebellion in 1861 and in 1864– 6, 14
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. V-VI – 7-9, 11
Dr. Henry Draper’s Photographs of the Moon – 10-12
Huntsville, Alabama – 12, 15
The Twentieth Regiment – 12, 14
Logan Crossing Lookout Creek – 12-13
Humors of the Day – 12-13
Dragging Artillery through the Mud – 15

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Continued from March 17 (reply #26).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4223681/posts#26

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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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, March 19, 1864 (“The Wilkes court martial moves slowly. Thus far I have no reason to be dissatisfied with the court.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-march.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, March 19, 1864 (“I see by some newspapers that are brought with this mail that the expedition into Mississippi is misrepresented and misunderstood.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_17.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: March 19, 1864 (“A good deal of fighting going on among us. A large number of sailors and marines are confined with us, and they are a quarrelsome set.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_26.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 19, 1864 (“I saw a large turkey to-day in market (wild), for which $100 was demanded.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-19.html

General Robert E. Lee to Carrie Stuart, March 19, 1864 (Gen. Lee thanks Carrie Stuart (unidentified by me) for repairing his coat, I suppose.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/general-robert-e-lee-to-carrie-stuart.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #3
John Hay, #4
Mary Chesnut, #5
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

[Bob434]

Again, such great drawings and illustrations in Harper’s weekly. Thank you for posting these. I’m not a huge history guy, but i do love the art from. The past- th3 history is good too... but it’s the art that draws my attention

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Especially appreciated Smith’s comprehensive summary of Grant’s vital efforts at consolidation, and Lincoln’s acquiescence. Grant knows how to set up his chess-pieces before the game—queen on color—and we will see how he deploys and maneuvers them. To extend the metaphor, Sherman will be his marauding queen.

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Well put.

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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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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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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, March 20, 1864 (“It is hard that I am to suffer from the malice of such men as Sickles and Butterfield.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/major-general-george-g-meade-to_17.html

Francis Lieber to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, March 20, 1864 (“Are you going to move on the everlasting Potomac?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/francis-lieber-to-major-general-henry-w_20.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: March 20, 1864 (“I see Abraham calls for 200,000 more. Keep asking for them Lincoln, that’s right, I’m sure there are yet many who can be spared for their country’s good in more meanings than one.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/captain-charles-wright-wills-march-20.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: March 20, 1864 (“All seems quiet with the military. We wonder if there will be any more blood made to flow in the Southland. There may be and there may not; God only knows.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-march_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 20, 1864 (“There are fires occurring now every night; and several buildings have been burned in the immediate vicinity of the War Department. These are attributed to incendiary Yankees”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-20.html

General Robert E. Lee to Margaret Stuart, March 20 1864 (“I can tell you for your satisfaction that General Johnson is well, that General Early has just returned from a visit home, and is handsomer than ever.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/general-robert-e-lee-to-margaret-stuart_12.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: March 20, 1864 (Description of the extreme popularity of Gen. Lee in Richmond.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire.html

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, March 21, 1864 (“Tom1 has gone with Admiral Dahlgren to Fortress Monroe after the body of his son Ulric, expected from Richmond.”
1 Thomas G. Welles, son of the Secretary.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-march-21.html

Salmon P. Chase to John Townsend Trowbridge of Somerville, Massachusetts, March 21, 1864 (The history of the war according to Salmon Chase.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/salmon-p-chase-to-john-townsend.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: March 21, 1864 (“Prison gradually filling up with forlorn looking creatures. Wood is being burned up gradually.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/04/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_27.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: March 21, 1864 (“We again receive marching orders; Forrest said to be crossing the Tennessee at Eastport. We are ordered to reconnoiter; proved to have been only an idle rumor.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-march_76.html

Francis H. Wigfall, March 21, 1864 (“I think Gen. Hood is quite anxious for a fight and I have no doubt will distinguish himself whenever it does come.”)
(“I heard a sermon yesterday from Gen. Pendleton, who I wrote in my last to Papa is out here inspecting the artillery of the army.” That would be the same sermon heard by John Jackman he mentioned yesterday.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/francis-h-wigfall-march-21-1864.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 21, 1864 (“the President fell into a grave mood, and some remark about recognition caused him to say twice—’We have no friends abroad!’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-21.html

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Today’s posts:

John G. Nicolay, reply #14
John Hay, #15
George Templeton Strong, #16
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #17

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Continued from March 9 (reply #33)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4222033/posts#33

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis