Posted on 05/21/2024 6:57:49 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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
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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts
Continued from May 18 (reply #37).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts#37
Jean Edward Smith, Grant
Continued from May 20 (reply #58).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts?q=1&;page=51#58
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two
Continued from Continued from May 20 (reply #59).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts?q=1&;page=51#59
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger
Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, May 21, 1864 (“Last night I was at a party at Mr. Chase’s, or his daughter Mrs. Sprague’s, and late in the evening he spoke to me of the great abuses in cotton speculations.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-may-21.html
Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, May 21, 1864 (“General Crook thinks Grant will force the fighting until some definite result is obtained.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_4.html
Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 21, 1864 (“I hear that they found the enemy on the south bank of the Etowah river, and that he disputes the crossing.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-21-1864.html
Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, May 21, 1864 (“It’s been a worrying day. Since the fourteenth we’ve done nothing but march and countermarch and change about.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_26.html
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 21, 1864 (“Dr. Lewis lingers along in a miserable state of existence, and scurvy and dropsy doing their worst.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_3.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 21, 1864 (“The enemy, it is said to-day, did not regain the works from which they were driven, but are now cooped up at Bermuda Hundred. Nothing is feared from Butler.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-21.html
Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 21, 1864 (“I heard to-day that my brother Morris was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Pa. I asked for a parole to-day to go and see my parents in New York, but they could not see it.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-21-1864.html
Today’s posts:
“Grant,” reply #3
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #4
“Lee,” #5
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #6
John Jackman, #7
John Hay, #8
George Templeton Strong, #9
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #10
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger
Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, May 22, 1864 (“News from Grant confirms my impression that the storm, mud, and rain prevented a decisive victory.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_54.html
Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 22, 1864 (“Gen. Meade said to me at breakfast: ‘I am afraid the rebellion cannot be crushed this summer!’”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_5.html
Major Charles Fessenden Morse: May 22, 1864 (“Atlanta is evidently our destination; whether we shall reach it or not remains to be seen.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-charles-fessenden-morse-may-22.html
Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 22, 1864 (“We are drawing 20 days’ rations, sending sick back to convalescent camp at Chattanooga, and making all preparations for a hard campaign.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-22-1864.html
Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, May 22, 1864 (“The enemy appeared on our right flank about 3 o’clock a. m. evidently with the intention of cutting us off from the rest of the army, but didn’t succeed.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_27.html
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 22, 1864 (“We have a sign out, made by myself on a piece of shingle: ‘WASHING.’ We get small pieces of bread for our labors”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_7.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: May 22, 1864 (“To-day Lieutenants Sullivan and Rowett are sent with a flag of truce into North Alabama, to negotiate an exchange for our men who were captured on the seventh.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/09/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-may_30.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 22, 1864 (“I saw some of the enemy’s wounded this morning, brought down in the cars, dreadfully mutilated. Some had lost a leg and arm— besides sustaining other injuries. But they were cheerful, and uttered not a groan in the removal to the hospital.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-22.html
Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 22, 1864 (“Nothing new from the front.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-22-1864.html
Today’s posts:
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #12
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #13
“Lee,” #14
Gen. Sherman letter to Mrs. Sherman, #15
John Jackman, #16
John G. Nicolay, #17
John Hay, #18
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #19
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