Harper’s Weekly – July 23, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 23, 1864

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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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Continued from July 12 (reply #26). “They too, ‘will have their trial’” recorded on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4249886/posts#26

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 26, 1864 (“It is a pity Mr. Lincoln employed the term “abandonment of slavery,” as it implies its immediate abolition or extinction, to which the South will never agree”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_15.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: July 26, 1864 (“Shell burst all around these Headquarters in a very disagreeable way. I pray hourly that I may be spared.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Tuesday Evening, July 26, 1864 (“We were defeated by a superior force at Winchester. My brigade suffered most in killed and wounded and not so much in prisoners as some others.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_14.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, July 26, 1864 (“General Crook’s back on the Maryland side of the Potomac again and Early’s forces are raiding the country again, too.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 26, 1864 (“Ain’t dead yet. Actually laugh when I think of the rebel who thought if I wasn’t dead I had better get inside. Can’t walk a step now. shall try for the hospital no more. Had an onion.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_32.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, July 26, 1864 (“I have been in the United States service three years now, and this is the first time for me in the hospital. I hope that it may be the last time.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_26.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 26, 1864 (“I saw Secretaries Benjamin and Mallory, and some lesser lights, riding down the river in an ambulance-wagon, supposed to be going a fishing. They were both excessively fat and red.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-26.html

General Braxton Bragg to Colonel Jon B. Sale, July 26, 1864 (“Lieutenant-General Lee arrived and goes on duty to-day. He is most favorably received.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/general-braxton-bragg-to-colonel-jon-b.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 26, 1864 (“To-day on the ocean a great many of our boys were seasick, but not I. I was promised a guard to take me to see my parents in New York for thirty minutes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-26-1864.html

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Today’s posts:

Gen. Sherman letter to Mrs. Sherman, reply #20
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #21
George Templeton Strong, #22
Mary B. Chesnut, #23
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #24
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #25

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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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Continued from July 26 (reply #24).

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: July 27, 1864 (“God spare me for Agnes’ sake and for dear mother’s sake! I fear it will break their hearts if I am killed here.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_4.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: July 27, 1864 (“But these shells are inconveniently searching, and dropped with a precision which would interest an amateur (if he was iron-plated).”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, July 27, 1864 (“are headed for Frederick Junction on the Monocacy River, where we had our fight July 9, 1864”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_7.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 27, 1864 (“Swan dead, Gordon dead, Jack Withers dead, Scotty dead, a large Irishman who has been near us a long time is dead. These and scores of others died yesterday and day before.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_22.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, July 27, 1864 (“One month ago today I was taken sick with the intermittent fever, at Kenesaw mountain.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_50.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 27, 1864 (“Gen. Lee may be on the eve of attacking Grant, or Grant him, or we may be reinforcing Early, as the solution of the marching of the clerks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-27.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 27, 1864 (“We landed at Jersey City at 12 M., and were immediately put in cars, and the officer that promised to send me to my parents refused to do so.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-27-1864.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: July 27, 1864 (“General Early has returned from Maryland, bringing horses, cattle, etc. While near Washington, the army burned Mr. Montgomery Blair’s house, which I cannot persuade myself to regret”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_28.html

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: July 27, 1864 (“Major Ansley and family have remained. We are feeling more settled and have begun to bring to light some of the things which we had put away.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-july-27-1864.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln note to Sec. Stanton, reply #27
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #28
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #29
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #30

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The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War, Chief Editor, Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito

Continued from July 21 (reply #30).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4251730/posts#30

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from July 23 (reply #3).

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

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Continued from July 22 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4251730/posts#39

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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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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Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins, July 28, 1864 (“I find the General in my absence digressed from his true path. The God of Heaven only knows how long I am to serve my country as the guardian of the habits of him whom it has honored.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-july-28_28.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins, July 28, 1864 [Later.] (“the fact of the General’s forgetting himself, in that one danger of which I wrote you this morning, renders my being here of an importance that you can appreciate”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-july-28.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Thursday, July 28, 1864 (“Very dry; no prospect of rain; wish we might have some”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_9.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: July 28, 1864 (“Ordered by Colonel Fiske across the river in command of a detachment of the eighteenth Indiana Infantry veterans to guard the telegraph station.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_25.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 28, 1864 (“Taken a step forward toward the trenches since yesterday and am worse Had a wash all over this morning. Battese took me to the creek; carries me without any trouble.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_47.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, July 28, 1864 (“We get very poor board here for a sick man to gain strength on, but we must make the best of it at present.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_28.html

James Russell Lowell to John L. Motley, July 28, 1864 (“the Democratic Party have literally not so much as a single plank of principle to float on”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/james-russell-lowell-to-john-l-motley.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 28, 1864 (“a dispatch from Gen. Ewell, received to-day, orders the local troops to occupy the Darby Town, New Bridge, and Williamsburg roads, for the enemy’s cavalry were working round to our left.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-28.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: July 28, 1864 (“We were treated very good on the road, and especially at Goshen, N. Y. The ladies gave us eatables and the men gave us tobacco.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-july-28-1864.html

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: July 28, 1864 (“We were just rising from breakfast when Ben Glass rode up with the cry: ‘The Yankees are coming. Mrs. Burge, hide your mules!’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-july-28-1864.html

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Today’s posts:

West Point Atlas of War map, “Never Call Retreat,” reply #32
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #33
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #34
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #35
George Templeton Strong, #36
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #37

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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