Posted on 06/18/2024 6:48:07 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/4243578/posts
The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War, Chief Editor, Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito
Continued from June 15 (reply #36).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4243578/posts#36
Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat
Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Eastern Theater, American Battlefield Trust
Continued from Continued from June 17 (reply #52).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4243578/posts?q=1&;page=51#52
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
Continued from June 16 (reply #44).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4243578/posts#44
Jean Edward Smith, Grant
Continued from June 17 (reply #53).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4243578/posts?q=1&;page=51#53
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two
Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger
Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, June 18, 1864 (A grouchy Gen. Meade sends Lt.Col. Lyman to liaise with Gen. Warren during todays attack at Petersburg.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to.html
Captain Charles Wright Wills: June 18, 1864 (“General Harrow and Colonel Wright rode out to the left some 200 yards from the regiment and narrowly escaped a trip over the river, a shell bursting right under the nose of the general’s horse.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/02/captain-charles-wright-wills-june-18.html
Letter from the Sixth Iowa (“I am now acting as commissary for Field hospital of the Army of the Tenn. at Altoona [sic] Ga., twenty miles from the “Front,” which is at Big Shanty on the Western Atlantic R. R.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/08/letter-from-sixth-iowa.html
Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, June 18, 1864 (“The works were carried by storm by colored troops, but they couldn’t have taken them if the forts had been fully garrisoned, by veterans instead of citizens.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_11.html
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: June 18, 1864 (“Some one stole my cap during the night. A dead neighbor furnished me with another, however.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_9.html
Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, June 18, 1864 (“There has been some very hard fighting on our right this afternoon, and General Thomas has turned the rebels’ left and pierced their center.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_18.html
James Freeman Clarke to E. C. C., June 18, 1864 (“Do you see how bravely the colored soldiers have fought at Petersburg? They have been praised by the generals on the field for their courage. Still, Government can pay them only seven dollars a month!”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/james-freeman-clarke-to-e-c-c-june-18.html
Ford’s Theatre Advertisement: Second Grand Concert (This concert must have been Sun. June 19. See Hay’s letter linked within dated June 20 and speaking of attending the concert “last night”.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/fords-theatre-advertisement-second.html
Today’s posts:
West Point Atlas of War map, “Never Call Retreat,” reply #3
American Battlefield Trust map, “Lee,” reply #4
“Grant,” #5
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #6
Johnny Green, #7
John Hay, #8
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #9
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, June 19, 1864 (“En route to Liberty [Bedford], sleepy, tired; hot, and dusty. All goes well however so far. Twenty-six miles.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_39.html
Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, June 19, 1864 (“General determined to send a flag to get a short armistice, as at Cool Arbor. I was again selected to undertake the mission”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_3.html
Senator James W. Grimes to Elizabeth Nealley Grimes, June 19, 1864 (“Grant’s campaign is regarded by military critics as being thus far a failure.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/senator-james-w-grimes-to-elizabeth_5.html
Captain Charles Wright Wills: June 19, 1864 (“This is the 50th day of the campaign. Our brigade has been under musketry fire 12 days, artillery about 30. We have as a brigade fought three nice little battles”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/02/captain-charles-wright-wills-june-19.html
Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, June 19, 1864 (“Generals Grant and Butler rode along the lines together at Bermuda Hundred this afternoon. It was my first sight of Butler; queer-looking man; his beauty won’t kill him.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_12.html
Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: June 19, 1864 (“Received marching orders yesterday and the Second Division went on board transports today. Saw nine rebels and captured two at Tuinca bend.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_20.html
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: June 19, 1864 (“When a man is shot now it is called being ‘parolled.’”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_11.html
Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, June 19, 1864 (“We have outflanked the rebels’ right and they have fallen back from their first line of rifle pits and have placed their heavy guns on high points of ground.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_19.html
Continued from June 9 (reply #44)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4242085/posts#44
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
https://randomthoughtsonhistory.blogspot.com/2017/02/fates-irony-sgt-major-george-f-polley.html
John Hay to John G. Nicolay, June 20, 1864 (“Madame is in the North. The President has gone to-day to visit Grant. I am all alone in the White pest-house.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/john-hay-to-john-g-nicolay-june-20-1864.html
John Hay to George William Curtis, June 20, 1864 (“Your letter to the President is not yet received. Please cause a copy to be made.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/john-hay-to-george-william-curtis-june.html
Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, June 20, 1864 (“It has been my policy to discourage these Presidential excursions. Some of the Cabinet favored them. Stanton and Chase, I think, have given them countenance heretofore.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-june-20.html
Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, June 20, 1864 (“Enemy following attacked our cavalry at Liberty yesterday evening with some loss to us. Today at Buford Gap we got ready for battle, but Rebels not ready.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_56.html
Captain Charles Wright Wills: June 20, 1864 — 11 a.m. (“We are all exceedingly anxious to see what is the other side of these mountains, but this abominable Johnston has no idea of letting us take a look until he is forced to.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/03/captain-charles-wright-wills-june-20.html
Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, June 20, 1864 (“The City of Petersburg looks lovely at a distance, but our guns command it and can at any time lay it in ruins.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_13.html
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: June 20, 1864 (“It is starvation and disease and exposure that is doing it Our stomachs have been so abused by the stuff called bread and soups, that they are diseased.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_12.html
Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, June 20, 1864 (“The rebels have fallen back, but still hold Kenesaw mountain and have their heavy batteries planted on the very top”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_20.html
Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, June 20, 1864 (“We proceed to the Chattanooga depot where we take the cars and are soon moving towards Atlanta.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/09/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_76.html
Letter from 8th Iowa Cavalry (“Stoneman’s and McCook’s (the 8th belongs to his command) Cavalry captured Lost Mountain the 17th with but slight resistance.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/09/letter-from-8th-iowa-cavalry.html
Today’s posts:
“Team of Rivals,” reply #14
“Grant,” #15
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #16
Johnny Green, #17
George Templeton Strong, #18
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #19
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