Harper’s Weekly – May 7, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | May 7, 1864

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Continued from May 12 (reply #64).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from May 9 (reply #30).

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from May 4 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4234614/posts#39

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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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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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: Friday, May 13, 1864 (“Many valuable lives have been offered up for the Union, and many a Rebel has fallen.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/11/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-may-13.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, May 13, 1864 – 8 A. M. (“Our losses have been frightful; I do not like to estimate them. Those of the enemy fully as great.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-general-george-g-meade-to_9.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Friday, May 13, 1864 (“ivouacked on east side of Peters Mountain very early. Sun and rest make all happy. Caught a Rebel train and a cannon at the foot of the hill.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/01/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Friday, May 13, 1864 (“We are all right so far. Burned New River Bridge, etc., etc. A most successful campaign. The victory of Cloyd’s Mountain was complete.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/01/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 13, 1864 (“The men think more of Sherman than of any general who ever commanded them, but they did not cheer him. I never heard a general cheered in my life, as he rode the lines.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-13-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Friday, May 13, 1864 (“Prisoners say that General Lee fought in person as it meant the loss of his army if his line was broken here, as well as Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_5.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: May 13, 1864 (“Whole army marched down the river and encamped in an open field on its banks, First Louisiana on picket.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_95.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 13, 1864 (“With sunken eyes, blackened countenances from pitch pine smoke, rags and disease, the men look sickening The air reeks with nastiness, and it is wonder that we live at all.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_25.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Friday, May 13, 1864 (“It now seems that all the rebel force in North Alabama lent their aid for the sole purpose of capturing Dick Rowett and his regiment”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_12.html

Letter from G., May 13, 1864 (“Senator Pomeroy is on board going down to bring up General Bartlett of Massachusetts who went into the fight with a Palmer leg and was wounded again.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/letter-from-g-may-13-1864.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 13, 1864 (“he President has had the Secretary of War closeted with him nearly all day. It is too late now for the evacuation of Richmond, and a desperate defense will be made.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-13.html

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, May 13, 1864 (“The Yanks certainly tried their best yesterday, and they made us try our best too. It was the most desperate struggle of the war. I do not know that it is ended, but we have quiet to-day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/dr-spencer-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother_96.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 13, 1864 (“Crossed the Rappahannock on pontoon bridges, and got to Belle Plain on the Potomac at 3 o’clock-nineteen miles to-day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-13-1864.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: May 13, 1864 (“the enemy are at Salem; if they come on to Lynchburg, Mr. P. is cut off from his home, and I will not even be able to hear from him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-may-13.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: May 13, 1864 (“Thus passed away our great cavalry general, just one year after the immortal Jackson. This seems darkly mysterious to us, but God’s will be done.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_3.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #77
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two” (1), #78
“Lee,” #79
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #80
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two” (2), #81
“Never Call Retreat,” #82
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two” (3), #83
Johnny Green, #84
John Hay, #85
George Templeton Strong, #86
Links to 15 items at Civil War Notebook, #87

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1st Sergeant John L. Ransom, 21 years old and wasting away in the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp while recording day-after-day the deaths of his fellows.

I just had to peek ahead and learn if he shared their fate, or whether he lived another half-century....

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Not gonna look.