Harper’s Weekly – July 2, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 2, 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/4246585/posts

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Gen. Robert Edmund Lee – 1-2
Gen. Sherman’s Campaign – 1, 6, 8, 11-12, 15
The Lumber-Men of Maine – 3
The Chicago Convention – 3
A Political Event – 3
Robert Edmund Lee – 3-4
The “Inaugural Pledge” – 4
News – 4
Unknown Heroines – 4
Prices and Investments – 4
Hall’s Arctic Expedition – 4
A Nurse’s Story – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
That’s What’s the Trouble with John C. – 5
Major -General John A. Logan – 7
Rev. Gordon Winslow – 7
The Escaped Slave and the Union Soldier – 7, 14
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XXXI-XXXII – 7-10
Humors of the Day – 10
The Names of the Dead – 13
Behind the Organ – 13-14
General Grant’s Campaign – 16
On Gathering Wild Roses – 17
Vigorous Doing – 17

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Continued from June 27 (reply #14).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4246585/posts#14

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

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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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Continued from June 14 (reply #32)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4243578/posts#32

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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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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First excerpt continued from July 1 (reply #39)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4246585/posts#39

Second excerpt not a continuation.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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 Gideon Welles: Saturday, July 2, 1864 (“Members do wrong in abandoning their post at these important periods, and no one who does it should be trusted.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-july-2.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, July 2, 1864 (“I have just learned as a fact that General Crook has an independent command or separate district in the Department of West Virginia, which practically answers our purposes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_10.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, July 2, 1864 (“We have marched almost continually for two months, fighting often, with insufficient food and sleep”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia_10.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Hayes, July 2, 1864 (“I do not feel sure yet of the result of Grant’s and Sherman’s campaigns. One thing I have become satisfied of. The Rebels are now using their last man and last bread.”)

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

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 2, 1864 (“We have been taking it easy since the charge. Our shells keep the Rebels stirred up all the time. Sham attacks are also got up twice or three times a day, which must annoy them very much.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/05/captain-charles-wright-wills-july-2-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, July 2, 1864 (“have had directions to fix up quarters as there is a prospect of remaining in camp several days; are obeying orders of course, but I suspect we shall move before three days”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_30.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 2, 1864 (“Almost the Glorious Fourth of July. How shall we celebrate? Know of no way except to pound on the bake tin, which I shall do.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, July 2, 1864 (“The rebels have now left Kenesaw mountain and Marietta and have moved around to their left so as to keep our right from flanking them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_2.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 2, 1864 (“the coffee (having in it sugar and cream) cost about a dollar each cup, and cannot be indulged in hereafter more than once a week.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-2.html

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Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #3
Johnny Green, #4
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #5
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #6
“Team of Rivals,” #7
John G. Nicolay, #8
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #9

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Continued from July 2 (reply #3).

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

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Continued from July 2 (reply #5)

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 3, 1864 (“To-day is the anniversary of the last day’s fight at Gettysburg. As I reflect on that eventful period, and all that has elapsed since, I have reason to be satisfied with my course”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_6.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 3, 1864 (“Rebels all gone this morning. Our boys were on the mountains at daylight. Hundreds of deserters have come in.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/05/captain-charles-wright-wills-july-3-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, July 3, 1864 (“All are anticipating a good time to-morrow if General Grant don’t conclude to have us fight, and I don’t think he will”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_31.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: July 3, 1864 (“Received marching orders on the second and today went on board the Moly Able bound for New Orleans”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_23.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 3, 1864 (War between POW raiders and POW police, who are armed with clubs by Wirz.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_8.html

Senator James W. Grimes to William P. Fessenden, July 3, 1864 (Heartfelt farewell from Sen. Grimes to his close friend, the new Treasury Secretary.)

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

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, July 3, 1864 (“The Seventeenth Corps drove the rebels back about two miles, taking one line of their works.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_3.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 3, 1864 (“Lee is gathering rapidly an army on the Potomac, and may not only menace the enemy’s capital, but take it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-3.html

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Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #11
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #12
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #13

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Continued from June 9 (reply #45)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4242085/posts#45

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from July 2 (reply #7, first excerpt)

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

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

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Continued from Continued from June 27 (reply #17).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4246585/posts#17

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