Harper’s Weekly – July 30, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 30, 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/4253546/posts

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William Pitt Fessenden – 1-2
In the Trenches – 1, 7-8
Wilson’s Raid in Virginia – 1, 11
The Rebel Invasion of Maryland – 1, 5-6
General Sherman’s Campaign – 1, 15
The Fire in Brooklyn – 1-2, 16
Drought – 2
More Men – 2-3
Corruption – 3
Peace – 3
“Conservatism” – 3
Fighting For Our Foes – 3
Reuter – 4
New Books – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Captain Gage’s Mitten – 6-9
When I Went Away in the Ranks – 9
Heffie’s Trouble – 9-10
The White Sails – 12
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XXXVII – 12-13
The Blockade-Runner – 13-14
Humors of the Day – 14
Paris Fashions for July – 17-18
In a Nut-Shell – 18-19
Beaten – 19

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

Continued from June 27 (reply #16).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4246585/posts#16

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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

Continued from Continued from July 23 (reply #5).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4253546/posts#5

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Continued from July 13 (reply #30)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4249886/posts#30

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from July 5 (reply #24).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4248263/posts#24

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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

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Major-General William F. Smith to Senator Solomon Foot, July 30, 1864 (“General Grant turned to General Butler, and said: ‘That drink of whiskey I took has done me good’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/major-general-william-f-smith-to.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: July 30, 1864 (“A shell knocked down a boulder of clay on to my wood leg and crushed it to pieces, killing the man next me. I surrendered to General Mahone.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett_10.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, July 30, 1864 (“As to that candidacy for Congress, I care nothing at all about it, neither for the nomination nor for the election.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/10/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_13.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 30, 1864 (“My spirits to-night are not very high; our project of attack, which in the beginning promised well, has not been a success in the result.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_21.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, July 30, 1864 (“My commission came as First Lieutenant of Company E, Tenth Vermont”)

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

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: July 30, 1864 (“Hang on well, and no worse.”)

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

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, July 30, 1864 (“A great many of the wounded men are dying, for the weather is so hot the wounds quickly mortify.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_30.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 30, 1864 (“To-day the enemy sprung a mine at Petersburg, but were repulsed in the attempt to rush in. This is all we know of it yet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-30.html

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Today’s posts:

West Point Atlas of War map, “Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #3
American Battlefield Trust map, “Lee,” #4
“Team of Rivals,” #5
“Lincoln,” #6
John Jackman, #7
George Templeton Strong, #8
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #9

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Continued from July 11 (reply #17).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4249886/posts#17

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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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 #33).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4253546/posts#33

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

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

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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, July 31, 1864 (“The affair was very badly managed by Burnside, and has produced a great deal of irritation and bad feeling, and I have applied to have him relieved.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_18.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: July 31, 1864 (“We wouldn’t treat cattle as we are being treated. Slept on some straw to night; delirious all night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett_11.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, Sunday, July 31, 1864 (“Such is war — now here, tomorrow in Pennsylvania or Virginia.”)

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

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, July 31, 1864 (Lt. Col. Lyman continues with his description of the Battle of the Crater.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_22.html

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fessenden Morse: July 31, 1864 (“I gave the order, “Double-quick,” and in a moment we were upon them; in less than two minutes we had captured seventy-two prisoners, including four captains and three lieutenants.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-charles-fessenden-morse-july-31.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, July 31, 1864 (“We were startled yesterday afternoon when half-way up the mountain, by the explosion of a magazine filled with ammunition.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_13.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, July 31, 1864 (“I am considered a convalescent now by the doctor and he has put me to work dealing out the medicine to the sick.”)

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

Francis H. Wigfall: July 31, 1864 (“An universal gloom seemed cast over the army, for they were entirely devoted to [Gen. Johnston]”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/francis-h-wigfall-july-31-1864.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: July 31, 1864 (“This was probably Grant’s grand stratagem for our destruction, and it has failed disastrously for him. What will he do next? No matter what, Lee is the master of the situation.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-july-31.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #13
George Templeton Strong, #14
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #15

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Continued from July 30 (reply #3).

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