Harper’s Weekly – July 30, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 30, 1864

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Diary of Private Louis Leon: August 1864 (“Nothing worth recording this month, except that the fare is the same as at Point Lookout.”)

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

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, August 1, 1864 (“There must, I apprehend, have been fault in the officers also, not Grant, who originates nothing, is dull and heavy, but persistent.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-august-1.html

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, August 1, 1864 (“I am constrained to believe that had instructions been promptly obeyed that Petersburg would have been carried with all the artillery”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_23.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: August 1, 1864 (“Could not sleep, all cramped up. Humane treatment of a prisoner of my rank, sick and wounded. Southern chivalry!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett_12.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 1, 1864 (“The papers will tell you that Grant has gone to Washington. As I don’t know what for, I can make Yankee guesses.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_23.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: August 1, 1864 (“In the last 12 days they must have lost 25,000 men. Our loss in the same time will not reach 4,500. There is no shadow of gas in this, as you would know if you could see an unsuccessful charge on works.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/captain-charles-wright-wills-august-1.html

A letter from Capt. Duncan, of Iowa

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/02/letter-from-capt-duncan.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, August 1, 1864 (“Chambersburg reported burnt by the enemy because it couldn’t or wouldn’t meet a levy by McCausland of $500,000 in currency”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_14.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 1, 1864 (“Just about the same. My Indian friend says: ‘We all get away.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_20.html

Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: August 1, 1864 (Sgt. Day put in charge of a ward of colored patients.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/12/diary-of-sergeant-david-l-day-august-1.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, August 1, 1864 (“the few remaining citizens are greatly agitated over the thought of being stopped on the streets by negro guards and required to show their passes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_1.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: August 1, 1864 (Several men of the 7th Illinois are heading home, their terms of service having expired.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_11.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 1, 1864 (“It is a critical time in Georgia. But if Virginia triumphs over the assaults of Grant, all will go well.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-1.html

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Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #17
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #18
George Templeton Strong, #19
Mary B. Chesnut, #20
Links to 13 items at Civil War Notebook, #21

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

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

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Abraham Lincoln Converses with a Canadian Editor. (An interview published in the Buffalo Courier.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/abraham-lincoln-converses-with-canadian.html

From the World. (“That dancing wind-bag of popinjay conceit, William Cornell Jewett, has achieved the immortality he covets”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/from-world.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, August 2, 1864 (“The explosion and assault at Petersburg on Saturday last appears to have been badly managed. The results were bad and the effect has been disheartening in the extreme.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-august-2.html

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, August 2, 1864 — 9:30 p.m. (Gen. Grant requests a court of inquiry to examine the Petersburg disaster.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Tuesday, August 2, 1864 (“I could not eat anything; am feverish and so weak. No crutches. I have to be partly carried, partly hop along, when I move.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett_13.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, August 2, 1864 (“Averell is a poor stick. Duffie is willing and brave and will do what he can. Powell is the real man and will do what a small force can do.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_15.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, August 2, 1864 (“reported that forty families here in Frederick who sympathize with the rebels are to leave for the South in the morning; don’t believe it”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_15.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 2, 1864 (“Two hundred and twenty die each day. No more news of exchange.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_68.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, August 2, 1864 (“News came from the front that the Iowa Brigade was badly cut to pieces in the battle of the 22d of July.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_2.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 2, 1864 (“They say Grant has now but 70,000 men, there being only a few men left at Washington. Can the agents paid by the Signal Bureau be relied on?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-2.html

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: August 2, 1864 (In the morning Yankee soldiers invade Burge’s home. At night twenty one Confederates with a Union prisoner camp nearby.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-august-2-1864.html

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Today’s posts:

Gen. Sherman letter to Mrs. Sherman, reply #23
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #24
Mary B. Chesnut, #25
Links to 11 items at Civil War Notebook, #26

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Continued from July 31 (reply #11).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from August 1 (reply #17).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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

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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, August 3, 1864 (Gens. Meade and Hancock have their noses out of joint over Sheridan’s elevation.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_19.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Wednesday, August 3, 1864 (“Hospital outside Danville. The past few days seem like a horrible dream which I can never forget.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett_21.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, August 3, 1864 (“camped at 1 o’clock p. m. near Buckeystown at Monocacy Mill on the Monocacy river; bathed in the river; all’s quiet to-night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_16.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 3, 1864 (“Had some good soup, and feel better. All is done for me that can be done by my friends.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_81.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, August 3, 1864 (“Everything is quiet here in Rome, Georgia. There is no news from General Grant’s army.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_74.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 3, 1864 (“It is rumored to-day that Beauregard has sprung a mine under Grant’s fortifications. This may be so.

Later. It was not so.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-3.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #28
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #29
Mary B. Chesnut, #30
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #31

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Continued from August 3 (reply #28).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from Continued from July 30 (reply #4).

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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Continued from July 28 (reply #34).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4253546/posts#34

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, August 4, 1864 (“General Hooker has arrived from Atlanta, having left in a pet because General Howard was given McPherson’s position.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/11/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday-august.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Thursday, August 4, 1864 (“Get no better, yet wrote to General Lee and Secretary of War this morning, asking for my exchange or parole.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett_25.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 4, 1864 (“It would have edified you to have seen the swift dignity with which General Meade and his gallant Staff stepped from the open, upper deck to the shady seclusion of the cabin!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_24.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Thursday, August 4, 1864 (“Remained in camp all day; services were held today over the remains of the First Division Inspector; various rumors about moving.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_96.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 4, 1864 (“Storm threatened. Will cool the atmosphere. Hard work to write.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_31.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, August 4, 1864 (“It is warm and sultry. There is no news from the front. I am still serving the medicine to the sick.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_54.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 4, 1864 (“They say the negro troops caused the failure, by running back and breaking the lines of the whites.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-4.html

General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, August 4, 1864 (“I fear that this force is intended to operate against General Early, and when added to that already opposed to him may be more than he can manage.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/general-robert-e-lee-to-jefferson-davis_16.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #33
“Lee,” #34
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #35
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #36
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #37

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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Continued from July 30 (reply #6).

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln