Harper’s Weekly – May 28, 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/4239134/posts

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Army of the Potomac – 1, 6, 10, 15
The Song of Grant’s Soldiers – 2
Our Armies – 2
The Army of the Cumberland – 2
The Dead Heroes – 2
The Early Hopes of the Rebels – 2-3
A Friendly Act of Denmark – 3
Autograph Leaves – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
“We have now ended the sixth day of very hard fighting. I propose to fight it out on this line of it takes all summer.” – U.S. Grant – 5
Grant’s Campaign – Topographical Map of Virginia – 7
The Battle of the Wilderness – 8
May Flowers – 8-9
Humors of the Day – 9
Humiliation of England – 9
Sherman’s Advance into Northern Georgia – 11
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XXIII – 12-13
Fort Darling and the Rebel Iron-Clads on the James, Seven Miles Below Richmond – 14
Destruction of the United States Gun-Boat “Commodore Jones” on the James – 14
Paris Fashions for May – 16, 18
General James C. Rice – 17
Major-General John Sedgwick – 17-18
On the Blockade – 18

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Continued from May 27 (reply #59).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4239134/posts?q=1&;page=51#59

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from Continued from May 27 (reply #58).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4239134/posts?q=1&;page=51#58

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

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

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Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, May 28, 1864 (“Colonel Brown and [the] Thirteenth came up last night; seemed glad to be with the brigade all at one camp. I was certainly glad.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_18.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 28, 1864 (“as soldiers, [the Germans] are miserable. They have no grit as a rule. The Paddies, on the contrary, will go in finely, and if well officered, stand to it through everything.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_11.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, May 28, 1864 (“did not advance far south of the river before we ran into the enemy and captured two pieces of artillery”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_4.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 28, 1864 (“It really seems as if we’re all to die here. My mouth getting sore from scurvy and teeth loose.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_13.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 28, 1864 (“Grant has crossed the Pamunky, and Lee is at the Yellow Tavern-not more than six miles from the city. The hostile armies are only a few miles apart, and the GREAT BATTLE may occur at any time”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-28.html

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Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #3
“Lee,” #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
John Jackman, #6
Johnny Green, #7
George Templeton Strong, #8
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #9

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Continued from May 25 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4239134/posts#39

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from May 28 (reply #3).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from Continued from May 28 (reply #4).

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

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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 29, 1864 – 10 a.m. (“Lee has fallen back from the North Anna, and is somewhere between us and Richmond. We shall move forward to-day to feel for him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/major-general-george-g-meade-to_21.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, May 29, 1864 (“At night news that Grant had crossed the Pamunkey, fifteen miles from Richmond. Sherman at Dallas, Georgia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes: Sunday, May 29, 1864 (“A flag of truce goes in the morning after our wounded left at Cloyd’s Mountain. There were four doctors and plenty of nurses left with them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard: Sunday, May 29, 1864 (“We may drift into the army of Grant before a month.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 29, 1864 - 4 p.m. (“Have been in the rifle pits all day. We’re now expecting a charge from the Rebels, that is, our division commander is. I think they will lose an immense sight of men if they attempt it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/10/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-29.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, May 29, 1864 (“The negroes were much frightened when they saw the Yankee army approach, but have become very much tamed in twenty-four hours”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_11.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 29, 1864 (“Could give up and die in a short time but won’t. Have got living reduced to a science.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_14.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 29, 1864 (“Grant is moving gradually to the right of us, as if with an intention to reach the James River; but probably it is with the view of enveloping us with his superior numbers”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-29.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #11
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #12
“Lee,” #13
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #14
John Jackman, #15
Johnny Green, #16
John G. Nicolay, #17
George Templeton Strong, #18
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #19