Harper’s Weekly – July 16, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 16, 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/4249886/posts

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Lieutenant-General Grant at His Head-Quarters – 1
Our Flag – 2
The Flag and the Army – 2
The “Alabama” – 2, 5
English Friends Upon the Presidency – 2
Wendell Phillips Upon the Baltimore Convention – 2-3
“We Can’t Subdue the Rebels” – 3
Home for the Soldiers – 3
New Books – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
General Sherman’s Campaign – 6-7
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XXXV – 7-9
Humors of the Day – 9, 11
The Fourth of July, 1864 – 10
The Lover’s Rescue – 11-12
The Old Wayside Inn – 12
Out of the Wilderness – 12-13
Rebel Deserters – 13, 16
The Chincha Islands – 13, 17
My Service of Plate – 13-14
Two Visions – 14
Marie; or, The Blue Handkerchief – 14-15

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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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Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Major-General William T. Sherman, July 16, 1864 (“I fear Grant has made a fatal mistake in putting himself south of James River. He cannot now reach Richmond without taking Petersburg, which is strongly fortified, crossing the Appomattox and recrossing the James”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to-major.html

Major Charles Fessenden Morse: July 16, 1864 (“The President, in his wisdom or his weakness, has stopped all capital punishment in the army.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-charles-fessenden-morse-july-16.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 16, 1864 (“We have had a terrific thunderstorm, killed five men and wounded eight in the 18th Missouri, and killed a teamster and some mules.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-july-16.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, July 16, 1864 (“The men are very tired; arrived at the Potomac about dark and waded the river two miles below Edward’s Ferry at Young’s Island”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_19.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 16, 1864 (“Well, who ever supposed that it could be any hotter; but to-day is more so than yesterday, and yesterday more than the day before.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_12.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, July 16, 1864 (“The weather is pleasant. There is nothing of any importance.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_16.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 16, 1864 (“the public seems to have been hoaxed by the officer who reported that a Washington paper of the 13th inst. contained an account of the surrender of Baltimore to the Confederate States forces.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-16.html

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7/17 reply #1:

Continued from July 9 (reply #5).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4249886/posts#5

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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 1 (reply #43).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4246585/posts#43

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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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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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, July 17, 1864 (“I had a visit to-day from General Grant, who was the first to tell me of the attack in the Times, based on my order expelling two correspondents.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_11.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Sunday, July 17, 1864 (“Half my brigade went this morning to General Crook, thirty miles east. We go in a day or two. The combinations to catch the Rebels seem to me good, but I expect them to escape.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_26.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, Sunday, July 17, 1864 (“We are pretty busy now trying to prevent the escape of the Rebel raiders who have plundered Maryland”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 17, 1864 (“We moved six miles without meeting a Rebel, and then only a squadron of cavalry that lacked a devilish sight of being “chivalry,” for they more than ran without just cause.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-july-17.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, July 17, 1864 (“General H. G. Wright of our Corps is in command of this army now, which numbers about 25,000 men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_20.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 17, 1864 (“It is said that two or three onions or a sweet potato eaten raw daily will cure the scurvy. What a shame that such things are denied us, being so plenty the world over.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_16.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, July 17, 1864 (“We have soldiers for nurses, and though they are convalescents, yet they are strong enough to care for the sick and wounded.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_17.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 17, 1864 (“Early, after bestowing his prizes in a place of safety, may return to Maryland and Pennsylvania for another supply. That may be the best policy to get the enemy off our soil.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-17.html

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Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #6
“Never Call Retreat,” #7
Lincoln telegram to Grant, #8
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #9
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #10

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

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, July 16, 1864 (“I observe that the Gazette at Cincinnati, a paper in the interest of Mr. Chase, has been violent and reckless in its assaults on the Navy Department.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-july-16.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett, July 18, 1864 (“I send you a poor photograph taken from a larger picture which Brady has of me here.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 18, 1864 (“We camp to-night near Stone Mountain, and the depot of the same name 16 miles from Atlanta.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-july-18.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, July 18, 1864 (“Mosby’s guerillas have been in our rear all day and robbed some of our stragglers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_21.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 18, 1864 (“Every morning the sick are carried to the gate in blankets and on stretchers, and the worst cases admitted to the hospital. Probably out of five or six hundred half are admitted”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/10/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_18.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, July 18, 1864 (“The weather is quite pleasant. There is nothing of any importance. All is quiet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_18.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 18, 1864 (“It is rumored that Gen. Johnston has been relieved at Atlanta, and Lieut.-Gen. Hood placed in command. I doubt.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-18.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: July 18, 1864 (“The theme of every tongue is our army in Maryland. What is it doing? What will be the result of the venture?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_8.html

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Today’s posts:

Johnny Green, reply #12
Mary B. Chesnut, #13
Lincoln proclamation and correspondence, #14
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #15
George Templeton Strong, #16
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #17

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Continued from July 17 (reply #6).

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

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