Harper’s Weekly – July 23, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 23, 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/4251730/posts

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Sinking of the “Alabama” – 1-2
The Sinking of the Rebel Corsair – 2
The Conflict of Sovereignties – 2
The Position of the “Radical Democracy” – 2-3
The Military Situation – 3
The Lesson of the Raid – 3-4, 11
From Marietta – 4
“Kearsarge” – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Foreign News – 4
A Case for the Cold-Water Cure – 4
General Grant’s Campaign – 5-8, 12
The Love-Cheat – 9
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XXXVI – 9-10
Our Boarder – 13-14
A Southerner’s Courtship – 14-15
Parting – 15
“Over the Way”: A Child’s Story – 15
General Sherman’s Campaign – 16, 18
Captain Winslow and the Pirate Semmes – 17-18
The Terrible Railway Disaster in Canada – 18-19
May 6, 1864 – 19
Humors of the Day – 19
Lula’s Letter: A Child’s Story – 19-20
A Poor Clerk’s Story – 20

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Continued from July 22 (reply #37).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4251730/posts#37

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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 Continued from July 12 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4249886/posts#27

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

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

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Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, July 23, 1864 (“I wish people North could be as hopeful as our troops who have to do the fighting are.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/08/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_21.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 23, 1864 (“The stories you hear about me, some of which have reached camp, are mere canards, I have never had any quarrel with either General Hancock or Smith.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_14.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett to Harriet Plummer, July 23, 1864 (Gen. Bartlett describes the situation at Petersburg for his mother. Lots of bullets flying.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett-to_17.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 23, 1864 (“The fight came off the 22d, and a glorious one it was for us. Lieutenant Blair of our regiment was killed, also Charles Buck, of Company F, and John Smith of my company.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/10/captain-charles-wright-wills-july-23.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, July 23, 1864 (“We are train guard again to-day; crossed the Chain Bridge at 3 o’clock p. m. and camped just below Tennallytown on the Georgetown pike.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_26.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 23, 1864 (“Reports of an exchange in August. Can’t stand it till that time. Will soon go up the spout.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_59.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, July 23, 1864 (“A great many sick and wounded are coming in from the front. Deaths occur here at the hospital every day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_23.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 23, 1864 (“And the local forces here are ordered to be in readiness; perhaps Lee meditates, likewise, a night march, and an attack on Grant.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-23.html

Lieutenant-General John Bell Hood to James A. Seddon, July 23, 1864 (“Gen. Wheeler’s cavalry routed the enemy in the neighborhood of Decatur to-day, capturing his camp.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/lieutenant-general-john-bell-hood-to_26.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 23, 1864 (“Three hundred more were sent from here to the new prison, which is in Elmira, N. Y., myself with them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-23-1864.html

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: July 23, 1864 (“Just before bedtime John, our boy, came from Covington with word that the Yankees had left. Wheeler’s men were in Covington and going in pursuit. We slept sweetly and felt safe.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-july-23-1864.html

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Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #3
Johnny Green, #4
“Lee,” #5
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #6
John Hay, #7
George Templeton Strong, #8
Links to 11 items at Civil War Notebook, #9

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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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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 24, 1864 (“This drought has been in one respect beneficial: it has kept the soldiers from using surface water and forced them to dig wells, whence healthy water may be got.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_20.html

William P. Fessenden to Senator James W. Grimes, July 24, 1864 (“I want your aid and counsel more than ever, and trust you will not withhold either.”)

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

Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, July 24, 1864 (“Bad precedents in time of war will easily be corrected by peace. But the anarchy of unsuccessful war will reduce us to a pitiable state, in which we shall easily fall victims to demagogism or tyranny.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/08/senator-john-sherman-to-major-general_23.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: July 24, 1864 (“Went through the second line. Got back safely, thank God Bullets flying very lively to-night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett-to_28.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett to Harriet Plummer Bartlett, July 24, 1864 (“This makes six officers of the Fifty-seventh who have been killed or badly wounded since I have been here. It is too bad.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett-to_29.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, July 24, 1864 (“Have been in camp resting all day. Adjutant Lyman is fixing up the pay rolls. I can’t find my valise; guess it’s lost.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_27.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 24, 1864 (“Have been trying to get into the hospital, but Battese won’t let me go. Geo. W. Hutchins, brother of Charlie Hutchins of Jackson, Mich., died to-day — from our mess. Jimmy Devers is dead.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/12/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_31.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, July 24, 1864 (“All is quiet, and no news from the front. I am gaining every day and can be up and around in the ward, but have not yet been out of doors.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_64.html

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, July 24, 1864 (“The Rebel self-appointed peacemakers took nothing by their move, and Lincoln showed as usual his straightforward good sense.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/charles-eliot-norton-to-george-william_27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 24, 1864 (“Yesterday and last night both Grant and Lee, or Beauregard, were moving pretty heavy forces from the south side to the north side of the river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-24.html

General Robert E. Lee to Mary Custis Lee, July 24, 1864 (“The ladies of Petersburg have sent me a nice set of shirts.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/general-robert-e-lee-to-mary-custis-lee_22.html

General Robert E. Lee to Brigadier General G. W. Custis Lee, July 24, 1864 (“Where are we to get sufficient troops to oppose Grant? He is bringing to him now the Nineteenth Corps, and will bring every man he can get. His talent and strategy consists in accumulating overwhelming numbers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/general-robert-e-lee-to-brigadier_18.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: July 24, 1864 (Judith McGuire’s first grandchild has been baptized into the Episcopal church.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_25.html

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: July 24, 1864 (“Our preacher’s horse stolen by the Yankees. This raid is headed by Guerrard [Kenner Garrard] and is for the purpose of destroying our railroads.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-july-24-1864.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln memo, reply #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #13
Links to 14 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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

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Continued from July 18 (reply #13).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4251730/posts#13

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, July 25, 1864 (“Blair is sore and vexed because the President frequently makes a confidant and adviser of Seward, without consulting the rest of the Cabinet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-july-25.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: July 25, 1864 (“General of trenches to-morrow. . . . . Relieved Colonel [Henry Goddard] Thomas, who was at Pittsfield when I went there first. He commands negro brigade.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_30.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: July 21—25, 1864 (Entries for an eventful five days.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_26.html

Major Charles Fessenden Morse: July 25, 1864 (“IN THE TRENCHES ONE AND A HALF MILES FROM ATLANTA - Considerable has been accomplished since my last . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-charles-fessenden-morse-july-25.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: July 25, 1864 (A battle for Atlanta.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/captain-charles-wright-wills-july-25.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, July 25, 1864 (“went to the Canterbury Theatre in the evening . . .” AKA Canterbury Hall. John Hay was there on July 5 and describes it as not a place to take your mother.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_28.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 25, 1864 (“Am myself much worse, and cannot walk, and with difficulty stand up. Legs drawn up like a triangle, mouth in terrible shape, and dropsy worse than all. A few more days.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_97.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, July 25, 1864 (“Lieutenant Carey died this morning here in the hospital, from his wounds, after suffering thirty-five days, he having been wounded on the skirmish line on the 15th of June.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_24.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 25, 1864 (Jones reproduces Gen. Hood’s dispatch to the War Dept. of 23 July.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-25.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 25, 1864 (“Left Point Lookout at 8 o’clock this evening in the frigate Victor for New York. There are 700 prisoners on board.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-25-1864.html

From the Valley of Virginia, published July 25, 1864 (Article in a Confederate newspaper about the Shenandoah Valley campaign.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/from-valley-of-virginia-published-july.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letters, reply #16
Mary B. Chesnut, #17
Links to 11 items at Civil War Notebook, #18

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