Harper’s Weekly – July 9, 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/4248263/posts

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Captain J. Henry Sleeper – 1-2
General Alexander Hays – 1-2, 5
The President’s Letter – 2-3
The Fourth of July – 3
Our Losses in the Campaign – 3
The Campaign in Virginia – 3-4
A South Carolina Ode for the Fourth of July – 4
New Books – 4
Correspondence: Letter from the Navy Agent – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
General F.C. Barlow – 5, 17
General Grant’s Campaign – 6-8, 11-12
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XXXIII-XXXIV – 9-10
Humors of the Day – 10
An Old Story Newly Applies – 10
Unconditional Surrender – 12-13
How Miss Avoyelles Kept Her Promise – 13-14
Gen. Sherman’s Campaign – 15-16
Gone to Sea – 17
General Longstreet – 17-18
Negro Execution – 17
How I Got My Little Dog – 17-19
Lost in the Wilderness – 19

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

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4248263/posts#7

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from June 20 (reply #15).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4245079/posts#15

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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

Continued from July 8 (reply #34).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4248263/posts#34

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

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

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

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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, July 9, 1864 (“The Rebel invasion of Maryland, if not so large or formidable as last year and year before, looks to me very annoying”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-july-9.html

Major Charles Fessenden Morse: July 9, 1864 (“From one part of our line I had a distant view of Atlanta, the spires and towers rising in plain sight above the everlasting forests”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-charles-fessenden-morse-july-9.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 9, 1864 (“Through the heaviest of the fire two of the Rebels came running in. They said that the 13 started, and that the Rebels opened on them. The rest were probably killed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/06/captain-charles-wright-wills-july-9-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, July 9, 1864 (The 10th Vermont at the Battle of Monocacy.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_7.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 9, 1864 (“Scurvy is about the most loathsome disease, and when dropsy takes hold with the scurvy, it is terrible. I have both diseases but keep them in check, and it only grows worse slowly.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_22.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, July 9, 1864 (“The rebels left their rifle pits in the night and crossed the Chattahoochee river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_92.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 9, 1864 (“We have a rumor to-day of the success of a desperate expedition from Wilmington, N. C., to Point Lookout, Md., to liberate the prisoners of war (20,000) confined there and to arm them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-9.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #3
“Grant,” #4
Shelby Foote Civil War Narrative map, “William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #5
Sherman Letter to Mrs. Sherman, #6
Johnny Green, #7
Lincoln note to Horace Greeley, #8
George Templeton Strong, #9
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #10

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Continued from July 9 (reply #4).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, July 10, 1864 (“one of the clerks came in and stated that the Rebel pickets were on the outskirts of Georgetown, within the District lines.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-july-10.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 10, 1864 (“I don’t know any thin old gentleman, with a hooked nose and cold blue eye, who, when he is wrathy, exercises less of Christian charity than my well-beloved Chief!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_15.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 10, 1864, a.m. (“A number of Johnnies were left on this side. I believe they have every time left on Saturday night or Sunday.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/07/captain-charles-wright-wills-july-10.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, July 10, 1864 (“when it did collapse, being nearly surrounded, it was every man for himself in order to keep from being captured.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_10.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 10, 1864 (“I certainly cannot do this prison justice. It’s too stupendous an undertaking. Only those who are here will ever know what Andersonville is.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom.html

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: Sunday, July 10, 1864 (Last I recall Sgt. Day’s enlistment had expired and he was walking home from N.C. Now he is in an army hospital in MD with a liver complaint.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/12/diary-of-sergeant-david-l-day-sunday_31.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, July 10, 1864 (“The sick and wounded were all moved today from the division hospital to Marietta. This could safely be done, now that the rebels have fallen back across the river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_10.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, July 10, 1864 (“Rome is a beautiful town situated on the Etawah river, and is now converted into one vast hospital for the wounded and sick soldiers of the army of the Cumberland.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_3.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 10, 1864 (“The fall of Richmond would exhibit strange developments among men of wealth. The poor could not get away, and would have no alternative but submission. But Richmond will not be taken.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-10.html

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, July 10, 1864 (“The shells have scattered the poor inhabitants in Petersburg, so that many of the churches are closed. Indeed, they have been visited by the enemy’s shells.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/general-robert-e-lee-to-mary-custis-lee_25.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #12
Lincoln telegrams, #13
John Hay, #14
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #15

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Continued from July 10 (reply #12).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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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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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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Continued from June 3 (reply #64).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4240561/posts?q=1&;page=51#64

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