Harper’s Weekly – May 14, 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/4236199/posts

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Engagement of Gun-Boats on the Red River – 1, 6-7
The Sharp-Shooter – 2
The Situation – 2
Words – 2
The Freedmen – 2
An Act of Justice – 2-3
Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair – 3
“Union and Liberty” – 3
A Monument – 3
A Correction – 3
Draper’s Photograph of the Moon – 3
Literary – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
Army and Navy Items – 4
The Happy Family – 4
The Washington Aqueduct – 5-6
The Two Poets: April 23, 1864 – 6
Major-General Sheridan – 6-7
General Thomas E. Greenfield Ransom – 6-7
A Parrot on the Rampage – 7, 10
Union Refugees in the Louisiana Swamps – 7, 11
At Pleasant Hill – 7
A Story of Lawrence – 7-8
Origin of the Dew-Drop – 8
Milly Graham’s Rose-Bush – 8-9
Humors of the Day – 9
Only a Baby’s Grave! – 12
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XX-XXI – 12-13
To-Morrow – 13
The Black-Eyed Smuggler – 14
Foraging in Louisiana – 15-16
John Minor Botts – 16
Army Work-Shops – 16-17
Far Away – 17

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

Continued from May 12 (reply #66).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4236199/posts?q=1&;page=51#66

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

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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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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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

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

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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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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, May 14, 1864 (“Attended the funeral of Colonel Harris [Commandant of the Marine Corps]. His death gives embarrassment as to a successor. The higher class of marine officers are not the men who can elevate or give efficiency to the corps.

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/11/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-may-14.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, May 14, 1864 (“Given by Captain Hastings a pair of spurs from Cloyd’s Mountain said to have been worn by General Jenkins.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/01/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_13.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 14, 1864 (“A few minutes after six I was ordered to deploy my company as skirmishers and relieve the 1st Brigade who were in our front. We shot with the Rebels until dark, and have just been relieved.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-14-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, May 14, 1864 (“But how about the uneasy souls — the remorse of those who are responsible for this war in the hereafter? What does it all mean, anyway?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_10.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: May 14, 1864 (“Heavy skirmishing most all day. Expected a big battle. Did not materialize.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_7.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 14, 1864 (“A band of music came from Macon yesterday to attend the picnic. A large crowd of women were present to grace the occasion. The grounds on which the festivities were held lay a mile off and in sight of all.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_26.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: May 14, 1864 (“This morning Colonel Rowett, with the Ninth Ohio Cavalry and the Seventh Illinois Mounted Infantry, leave Prospect on the road leading towards Lexington, Alabama.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/08/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-may_12.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 14, 1864 (“Grant says he will not recross the Rappahannock as long as he has a man left. Lee seems determined to kill his last man.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-14.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 14, 1864 (“Have been prisoners since the 5th of this month, and have drawn three and a half days’ rations. On that kind of a diet I am not getting very fat. our Yankee guard gave us quite a lot of their own rations.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-14-1864.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: May 14, 1864 (“General Lee’s last telegram tells of a furious fight on Thursday, near Spottsylvania Court-House. The enemy was repulsed, and driven back; and yet General Grant prepares for a fresh attack.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_4.html

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Today’s posts:

Two American Battlefield Trust Atlas maps, “William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #3
John Jackman, #4
Johnny Green, #5
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #6
George Templeton Strong, #7
Lincoln letter to Governor of Kansas, #8
John Hay, #9
John G. Nicolay #10
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War, Chief Editor, Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito

Continued from May 13 (reply #83).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4236199/posts?q=1&;page=51#83

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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Continued from Continued from May 13 (reply #79).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4236199/posts?q=1&;page=51#79

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, May 15, 1864 – 9 P. M. (“General Grant showed me a despatch he had written to the War Department, speaking in complimentary terms of my services, and asking I be made a major general in the regular army.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-general-george-g-meade-to_10.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, May 15, 1864 (“Four men of Company F, who went out foraging at Blacksburg, reported to have been seen dead on the road. They went out foolishly unarmed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/01/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_91.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 15, 1864 – 10 p.m. (“But now that there is a quiet day, I thought I would make a beginning of describing to you the sad, bloody work we have been at. . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_24.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 15, 1864 (“The skirmishers are fighting briskly. Osterhaus’ artillery is on both sides and behind us. Sherman has just passed us to the front.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-15-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, May 15, 1864 (“I saw a General lousing to-day. I hope this won’t shock anyone when they read it after I have passed along. It’s a part of the history of the civil war though, and should be recorded.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_11.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: Sunday, May 15, 1864 (“Quamtrell’s [sic] guerrillas on the opposite side of the river had a good time all day firing into our transports.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_10.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 15, 1864 (“Kilpatrick said to be moving toward us for the purpose of effecting our release. Hope he will be more successful than in his attack on Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_27.html

Diary of Private Charles H. Lynch: May 15, 1864 (“Sigel managed to get his main force in line, batteries posted, so the enemy was held in check. Our brigade suffered heavy loss. It looked to us like a case of mismanagement.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/diary-of-private-charles-h-lynch-may-15.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: May 15, 1864 (“The rebel battalion being saddled ready to start to church, are soon away towards the Tennessee where they plunge in and succeed in making their way on to Cedar Island”)

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

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 15, 1864 (“Gen. Lee’s dispatches to the President have been withheld from publication during the last four days.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-15.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 15, 1864 (“Still here. They are fighting very hard on the front.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-15-1864.html

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Today’s posts:

West Point Atlas of War map, “Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #13
American Battlefield Trust Atlas map, John Jackman, #14
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #15
“Lee,” #16
John G. Nicolay, #17
George Templeton Strong, #18
Links to 11 items at Civil War Notebook, #19