Harper’s Weekly – May 14, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | May 14, 1864

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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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Continued from May 10 (reply #44).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4236199/posts#44

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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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: Wednesday, May 18, 1864 (“Seward then asked if the World and Journal of Commerce had been shut up.” Watch breaking news in the NY Times for this story.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-wednesday-may-18.html

Senator James W. Grimes to Elizabeth Nealley Grimes, May 18, 1864 (“We have suffered a terrible loss of killed and wounded (nearly fifty thousand), and Lee is in an impregnable position.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/senator-james-w-grimes-to-elizabeth.html

Major-General John A. Dix to Edwin M. Stanton, May 18, 1864 (“Since writing the above the President’s order for the arrest of the editors, proprietors, and publishers of the World and Journal of Commerce has come to hand.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/major-general-john-dix-to-edwin-m.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Wednesday, May 18, 1864 (“Brigade flag carried by Brigdon hit two or three times in battle of Cloyd’s Mountain. Once struck out of Brigdon’s hands.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_12.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 18, 1864 (“The great feature of this campaign is the extraordinary use made of earthworks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_27.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 18, 1864 (“At noon we get into Adairsville and meet the 4th Army Corps. Saw Generals Howard, Thomas, Sickles and a hundred others.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-18-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, May 18, 1864 (“Perly Farrer was killed to-day on the skirmish line. He was a good boy, a member of my old Company B, of which I am so proud and fond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_20.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: May 18, 1864 (“First Louisiana crossed the bayou again and camped all night. Built a bridge by anchoring steam boats along side each other and laying on planks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_15.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 18, 1864 (“A priest comes inside praying and chanting. A good man to come to such a place. Performs his duty the same to small-pox patients as to any other.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_30.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 18, 1864 (“It is rumored likewise that President Lincoln has called for 60,000 militia, to defend Washington.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-18.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 18, 1864 (“We are divided in divisions and companies. There is a thousand in each division and one hundred in each company. A sergeant commands each company. We get light bread one day and crackers the other.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-18-1864.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: May 18, 1864 (“Surely we have fallen upon evil times! Last night we received intelligence of the very severe battle at or near New Market, between Breckenridge and Seigle; the latter was repulsed, and is retreating, pursued by Breckenridge.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-may-18.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: May 18, 1864 (“On the south side, Beauregard has driven Butler to Bermuda Hundreds, where he is under shelter of his gunboats. Oh! when will this fearful state of things end?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_10.html

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Today’s posts:

West Point Atlas Map (1), “Grant,” reply #37
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #38
“Lee,” #39
West Point Atlas Map (2), “William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #40
John Jackman, #41
“Lincoln,” #42
George Templeton Strong, #43
Links to 13 items at Civil War Notebook, #44

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

Continued from May 18 (reply #39).

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Omitted the attribution for the above

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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 May 13 (reply #82).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4236199/posts?q=1&;page=51#82

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from May 18 (reply #40).

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

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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: Thursday, May 19, 1864 (“The bogus proclamation has been the principal topic to-day. The knowledge that it is a forgery has not quieted the public mind.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday-may-19.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, May 19, 1864 (“on advancing, we found the enemy so strongly entrenched that even Grant thought it useless to knock our heads against a brick wall”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-general-george-g-meade-to_17.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, May 19, 1864 (“From three miles north of Greenbrier River to Meadow Bluff ten miles. Forgot a picket of twenty men on south side of Greenbrier River; got them up all right.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard: Thursday, May 19, 1864 (“We charged a Rebel battery entrenched in [on] a wooded hill across an open level meadow three hundred yards wide and a deep ditch, wetting me to the waist, and carried it without a particle of wavering or even check, losing, however, many officers and men killed and wounded.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 19, 1864 (Lt. Col. Lyman now describes his experience of Spotsylvania.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_84.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 19, 1864 – 5 p.m. (“The cavalry had sharp fighting in the road we have come over to-day. Many dead horses and a number of fresh graves by the roadside.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-19.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Thursday, May 19, 1864 (“General Burnside moved his Corps to the left of us during the night. We all moved about a mile and a half to the left and threw up a new line of entrenchments: enemy about twelve hundred yards in our front”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_21.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: May 19, 1864 (“The cunning Smith had foreseen what would happen, so he laid another ambush and when the army was nearly across Dick run into it and was terribly cut up.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_16.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 19, 1864 (“Philo Lewis died today. Could not have weighed at the time of his death more than ninety pounds, and was originally a large man”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may.html

Robert Murray to William H. Seward, May 19, 1864 (“Surveyor Andrews of the Custom House has rendered himself very obnoxious in this matter, & if I am indicted by the Grand Jury for executing the orders of the Govt — I shall be indebted to him”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/robert-murray-to-william-h-seward-may.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 19, 1864 (“Gen. Beauregard intends shelling Butler in his fortifications to-morrow.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-19.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 19, 1864 (“Our General Daniels was killed, which is certainly a great loss to us, for he was a good and brave man”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-19-1864.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: May 19, 1864 (“Pickett’s Division stormed the enemy’s breastworks, and have 700 or 800 killed and wounded.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-may-19.html

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Today’s posts:

West Point Atlas of War map, “Lee,” reply #46
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #48
“Never Call Retreat, #49
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #50
John Jackman, #51
Johnny Green, #52
Lincoln note to Sen. Sumner, #53
George Templeton Strong, #54
Links to 13 items at Civil War Notebook, #55

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Continued from May 12 (reply #61).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4236199/posts?q=1&;page=51#61

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from May 18 (reply #38).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from Continued from May 19 (reply #46).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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