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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
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Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4258155/posts
Continued from August 14 (reply #7).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4258155/posts#7
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, August 20, 1864 (“As I expected, the papers - particularly the Administration papers in New York - are very abusive of me because the Tallahassee is not captured.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-august_15.html
Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Saturday, August 20, 1864 (“Three weeks to-night since my capture. It seems like three months at least. What a difference though between my condition now and one week ago! I did not then expect to be alive now.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_28.html
Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, August 20, 1864 (“I have been very ill with dysentery, consequent on the exposure after the over-exertion and exhaustion on the 30th of July. I am still very weak, but have turned the corner and am out of danger.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett-to.html
Colonel Theodore S. Bowers to Brigadier-General John Rawlins, August 20, 1864 (“The impression is becoming almost universal that for political considerations the President will suspend the draft. If he does, good-bye United States.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/colonel-theodore-s-bowers-to-brigadier_86.html
Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 20, 1864 (“General Williams has just been in. His great delight is to rub the fuzz on top of my head with his finger, and exclaim: ‘Wonder what color the baby’s hair is going to be!’”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_7.html
Captain Charles Wright Wills: August 20, 1864 (“During the last few days cavalry has been operating on the right against the enemy’s communications.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/captain-charles-wright-wills-august-20.html
Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, August 20, 1864 (“Arose early this morning and am feeling better; over-tired yesterday from hard marching and fatigue, I reckon, was all”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_5.html
Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 20, 1864 (“Some say three hundred now die each day No more new men coming. Reported that Wirtz is dead.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_10.html
Diary of Sergeant David L. Day: August 20, 1864 (Sgt. Day doesn’t think much of the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, at least from his perspective in the convalescent ward.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/12/diary-of-sergeant-david-l-day-august-20.html
Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 20, 1864 (“Late this afternoon, marching orders. Marching on towards Charlestown. The enemy must be near.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_69.html
Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, August 20, 1864 (“Our ward is crowded to the limit, there being more sick and wounded here now than at any previous time.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_13.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 20, 1864 (“the week’s work is good—Grant losing from 10,000 to 15,000 men.
“A few more weeks, at that rate, will consume his army, and then—peace ?”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-20.html
Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: August 20, 1864 (“It is said that our new steamer, the “Tallahassee,” has been within sixty miles of the city of New York, very much to the terror of the citizens.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_1.html
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