Harper’s Weekly – June 25, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | June 25, 1864

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Today’s posts:

West Point Atlas of War Map, “Never Call Retreat,” reply #13
American Battlefield Trust map, “William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #14
American Battlefield Trust map, Johnny Green, #15
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #16
“Lee,” #17
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #18
Lincoln note of acceptance, #19
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #20

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

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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, June 28, 1864 (“Mrs. General Hunter was at our house this evening and has tidings of a favorable character from her husband, who is in the western part of Virginia.” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91528133/maria_indiana-hunter)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-june-28.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Tuesday, June 28, 1864 (“March to Loup Creek, fourteen miles; and yesterday to Piatt, twenty-two miles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_26.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: June 28, 1864 (“Received my commission as Brigadier-general, date June 20. Go to Ninth Corps.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-colonel-william-f-bartlett.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: June 28, 1864 (Capt. Wills’ brigade lost a third of its men at Kennesaw Mountain, but he lived to tell about it. Which he does here.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/04/captain-charles-wright-wills-june-28.html

Letter from the Sixth (“The loss in the 6th Iowa [at Kennesaw Mountain] was fifty killed and wounded” – Edwin Alden)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/10/letter-from-sixth.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, June 28, 1864 (“as we have been in tight places, I guess K Company has won my admiration as a valiant one over all others, except Company B, which will follow me anywhere I lead”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_92.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: June 29, 1864 (“Some tell-tale traitor has been informing on them, for attempting to escape or something Wirtz punishes very hard now. Has numerous instruments of torture just outside the gate.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_29.html

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Today’s posts:

Elisha Hunt Rhodes, reply #22
George Templeton Strong, #23
Mary B. Chesnut, #24
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #25

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

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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 Gideon Welles: Wednesday, June 29, 1864 (“We hear that the pirate Alabama is at Cherbourg. Is she to remain there to be repaired?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-wednesday-june.html

Letter from Lieut. Vanscoy (“I send you a list of the killed and wounded of Cos. F and B, the casualties resulting from a charge made upon the enemy’s lines, at Kinesaw [sic] Mountain, on the 27th inst.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/09/letter-from-lieut-vanscoy.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, June 29, 1864 (“General H. G. Wright, our corps commander, had an inspection and review at 7 o’clock this morning.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_27.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: June 28, 1864 (“Can see the dead wagon loaded up with twenty or thirty, bodies at a time, two lengths, just like four foot wood is loaded on to a wagon at the North, and away they go to the grave yard on a trot.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_25.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, June 29, 1864 (“I was taken quite sick, having contracted the intermittent fever while digging the rifle pits along a branch infected with malaria.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_29.html

James Freeman Clarke to E. C. C., June 29, 1864 (“I have had one or two good talks with Mr. Chase about public affairs; also with Charles Sumner.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/james-freeman-clarke-to-e-c-c-june-29.html

General Robert E. Lee to James Seddon, June 29, 1864—8:30 p.m. (“General Hampton reports that he attacked the enemy’s cavalry yesterday afternoon on their return from Staunton River bridge this side of Sappony Church, and drove them beyond that point.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/general-robert-e-lee-to-james-seddon.html

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Today’s posts:

John G. Nicolay, reply #27
Lincoln note to Gov. Steele, #28
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #29
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #30

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Continued from June 22 (reply #29)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4245079/posts#29

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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

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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, June 30, 1864 (“All were surprised to-day with the resignation of Secretary Chase and the nomination of Governor David Tod as his successor.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday-june-30.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, June 30, 1864 (“we have had quite a serious disaster. A whole division of cavalry were met by three divisions of the enemy’s cavalry, supported by infantry, and after an honorable struggle were overpowered and dispersed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_5.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Thursday, June 30, 1864 (“This [has been] the hardest month of the war; hot and dusty long marches; hungry, sleepy night marches; many skirmishes; two battles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_17.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, June 30, 1864 (“We hope to be organized into an independent command with Colonel [William Henry] Powell’s Cavalry Brigade and two batteries. Then we can raid to some purpose.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, June 30, 1864 (“General Crook has won the love and confidence of all. General Hunter is not so fortunate. General Averell has not been successful either.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia_29.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, June 30, 1864 (“We are all impressed with the idea that the Confederacy has now got all its strength of all sorts in the field, and that nothing more can be added to it. Their defeat now closes the contest speedily.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Thursday, June 30, 1864 (“The First and Second Divisions of our Corps worked all night destroying the railroad and are at it now, our forces having burnt the depot”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_84.html

Francis Lieber to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, June 30, 1864 (Francis Lieber has an idea for improving the draft.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/francis-lieber-to-major-general-henry-w_31.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: June 30, 1864 — 8 a.m. (“I have lost just half the men I left Scottsboro with just two months ago, but what I have left, are every man ready to help.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/05/captain-charles-wright-wills-june-30.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: June 30, 1864 (“Strong talk of forming a police force to put down raiders and to enforce order. If successful it will prove of great benefit.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_30.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, June 30, 1864 (“The Seventeenth Army Corps have removed all their surplus baggage to the rear for the purpose of making a flanking movement on the rebels, who are reported to be falling back from their lines around Kenesaw mountain.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_30.html

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, June 30, 1864 (Gen. Lee writes to Mrs. Lee on their 33rd anniversary.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/general-robert-e-lee-to-mary-custis-lee_24.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #32
Lincoln note to Sec. Chase, #33
John Hay, #34
Gen. Sherman letter to Mrs. Sherman, #35
George Templeton Strong, #36
Links to 12 items at Civil War Notebook, #37

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Continued from June 30 (reply #32)

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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