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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/4237730/posts

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Gen. Sherman’s Advance – 1, 15
At Gettysburg – 2
The Victory – 2
To a Jackson Democrat – 2
The Humiliation of England – 2
Picture Preaching – 2-3
General Wadsworth – 3
Charity Begins at Home – 3
Rev. Dr. M’Clintock – 3
William Sidne Thayer – 3
All Hail, Ohio! – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
Army and Navy Items – 4
Revenge – 4
Musical Festival in Philadelphia – 5, 15
General Butler’s Movement – 6, 15
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XXI cont.-XXII – 7-9
Humors of the Day – 9
A Night’s Lodging in Paris – 9, 11
Rebel Atrocities – 10, 15
Map of Virginia, Showing the Military Operations of Generals Grant and Butler – 12
Map of Richmond, Virginia – 13, 15
Destruction of East Tennessee Railroads – 14-15
Destruction of Schooners off Homosassa River – 14-15
Gen. James S. Wadsworth – 15
Sleep and Death – 15
Surprised – 15-16

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Continued from May 18 (reply #37).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts#37

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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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

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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

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

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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

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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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 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

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Shelby Foote, The Civil War Narrative, Volume Three, Red River to Appomattox

Continued from May 15 (reply #13).

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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Continued from May 19 (reply #50 ).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts#50

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

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Continued from May 17 (reply #32)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts#32

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, May 23, 1864 (“Yet the Administration ought not to be condemned for the misdeeds of one, or at most two, of its members. They would not be if the President was less influenced by them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-may-23.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, May 23, 1864 – 8 a.m. (“I am sorry you will not change your opinion of Grant. I think you expect too much of him. I don’t think he is a very magnanimous man, but I believe he is above any littleness”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-general-george-g-meade-to_18.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, May 23, 1864 (“Court martial continues. Prosecution closed yesterday. Defense opens this A. M.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_19.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 23, 1864 (Further description of the mule salient at Spotsylvania Courthouse.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_2.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 23, 1864 (“General Meade, who got his pride up at Grant’s rapidity, set off at a rate that soon raised a cloud of dust and left the Lieutenant-General far behind”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_6.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 23, 1864 (“We have made 21 miles today, and the distance, heat and dust have made it by far the hardest march we have had for a year.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-23-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, May 23, 1864 (“General Longstreet’s Corps is only about three miles ahead of us from which it would seem we are chasing him”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_28.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 23, 1864 (“Rains very hard. Seems as if the windows of Heaven had opened up, in fact the windows out all together. It’s a grand good thing for the camp, as it washes away the filth and purifies the air”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_8.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: May 23, 1864 (“Instead of sending our men as per promise, Colonel Johnson, C. S. A., sends a squad of Federal soldiers belonging to other regiments whose term of service would soon expire, thus breaking his pledge of faith”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/09/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-may.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 23, 1864 (“Gen. Johnston, without a defeat, has fallen back to Calhoun, Ga. Gen. Lee, without a defeat, has fallen back to Hanover Junction”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-23.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 23, 1864 (“We are guarded by negro troops, who are as mean as hell.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-23-1864.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: May 23, 1864 (“At nine o’clock this night my husband returned home, safe, having walked twenty miles owing to a break in the canal.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-may-23.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: May 23, 1864 (A tribute to Gen. J.E.B. Stuart)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_13.html

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Continued from May 5 (reply #55). Jefferson Davis wrote a letter to Gov. Brown countering “Brown’s long, argumentative letters” on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4234614/posts?q=1&;page=51#55

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William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, May 24, 1864 (“Nothing especial at the Cabinet. The condition and position of the armies canvassed. Chase was not present. He seldom attends of late.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-may-24.html

Senator James W. Grimes to Elizabeth Nealley Grimes, May 24, 1864 (“As you learn by the papers, I made a speech yesterday, but I did not, as they say I did, talk two hours.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/senator-james-w-grimes-to-elizabeth_2.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, May 24, 1864 – 9 a.m. (“Yesterday Warren and Hancock both had engagements with them, and were successful.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-general-george-g-meade-to_19.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, May 24, 1864 (Courts-martial and promotions.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_9.html

Dr. Joseph T. Webb to Marietta Cook Webb, May 24, 1864 (“The more we learn of the Rebels, etc., at Cloyd’s Mountain, the greater was our victory.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/dr-joseph-t-webb-to-marietta-cook-webb.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 24, 1864 (An anecdote illustrating how Gen. Meade likes to keep his staff officers on their toes.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_9.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 24, 1864 (“At Van Wirt we turned east on the Atlanta road. Will pass through Dallas to-morrow.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-24-1864.html

Letter from Adjt. E. H. King (“The men are foot-sore and weary but are in good heart, eager to push to the front and be with Gen. McPherson.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/07/letter-from-adjt-e-h-king.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, May 24, 1864 (“saw General U. S. Grant to-day for the first time, at his mess table under a tent fly; was in his shirtsleeves; good view.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_31.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 24, 1864 (“Sherman coming this way, so said, towards Atlanta. It is thought the cavalry will make a break for us, but even if they do they cannot get us north.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_9.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 24, 1864 (“It is said to-day that Grant threatens the Central Railroad, on Lee’s left. This is regarded as a serious matter. We want men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-24.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 24, 1864 (“This negro company was taken away to-day, as there is no telling what even men without arms will do to such devils, although they have got guns.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-24-1864.html

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Continued from May 19 (reply #49).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts#49

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan