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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/4258155/posts

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General Grant’s Campaign – 1-2, 6, 11, 17
A Soldier’s Lament for M’Pherson – 2
The Wade and Davis Manifest – 2-3
A Peace Administration – 3
Should M’Clellan be Recalled? – 3
The Black Troops – 3-4
The New Loan – 4
From the Western Army – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Foreign News – 4-5
Making One’s Friends Useful – 5
The Christian Commission – 7-8
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XLI – 8-10
Humors of the Day – 10
A Dirge – 12
Professor Halstead’s Girl – 12
The Death-Light – 12-13
From Darkness into Light – 13-14
Off Mobile – 15, 17
Burning of Chambersburg – 16-17
Blue-Belle – 17-19

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Continued from August 14 (reply #7).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4258155/posts#7

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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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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Continued from August 19 (reply #35)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4258155/posts#35

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

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Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton, August 21, 1864—5 p.m. (“Please inform General Foster that under no circumstances will he be authorized to make exchange of prisoners of war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_22.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Sunday, August 21, 1864 (“To-night smoked my first and only cigar, one that has been in my coat-pocket all the time.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f.html

Colonel Theodore S. Bowers to Brigadier-General John Rawlins, August 21, 1864 (“I never before saw Grant so intensely anxious to do something. He appears determined to try every possible expedient.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/colonel-theodore-s-bowers-to-brigadier_24.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 21, 1864 (“The conduct of Hagood is denounced as treacherous, but this all depends on the details of the affair, which remain to be proved.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_9.html

Captain Charles “Edward” Putnam to Mary “Ella” Fawcett Putnam, August 21, 1864 (“when night comes, I get lonesome and can find no enjoyment except in writing to my wife — even if I have not much to say.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/captain-charles-edward-putnam-to-mary.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, August 21, 1864 (“have been hustling all day to throw up rifle pits and to-night finds us in line behind a formidable breastwork; skirmishing still continues briskly.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_6.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 21, 1864 (“Sleep nearly all the time except when too hot to do so.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_42.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 21, 1864 (“We put in a hard day, digging rifle pits under fire and battle, changing position at double-quick time. The brunt of the battle was fought by our cavalry.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_16.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, August 21, 1864 (“The first thing in the morning is to serve each man with food according to his condition and the doctor’s orders, and then deal out the medicine. There is a death every day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_46.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday Afternoon, August 21, 1864 (“Hogs, chickens, roasting-ears and fruit abound in abundance. We live high to-night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 21, 1864 (“The next two months will be the most interesting period of the war; everything depends upon the result of the Presidential election in the United States.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-21.html

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Continued from August 18 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4258155/posts#25

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, August 22, 1864 (“the Treasury Department in withholding money from the naval contractors for months after it is due is reprehensible and injurious in the highest degree to the public credit.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-august-22.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, August 22, 1864 (“I have been very much occupied for several days past in the operations of my command on the Weldon Railroad, particularly Warren’s Corps”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_26.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Monday Evening, August 22, 1864 (“I dread the journey to Columbia, two days. What are they doing at home to-night? I wish I could look in, invisible.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_2.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, August 22, 1864 (“enemy followed us up and skirmished with our rear guard ‘right smart’ all day”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_7.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 22, 1864 (“Exchange rumors.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_19.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 22, 1864 (“A line of battle was soon formed under a hot fire from the enemy. Go right at work building intrenchments made of logs and dirt. The strongest we were ever behind.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_41.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday Morning, August 22, 1864 (“The scouts return to camp reporting nothing threatening in the country, whereupon we return to camp, thus ending another ‘wild goose chase.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_29.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, August 22, 1864 (“It is quite cool and pleasant this morning and things appear quite lively in town. I wrote a letter to Mr. G. G. Evans, Philadelphia, ordering a gold pen, for which I enclosed $5.00.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_94.html

Henry J. Raymond to Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1864 (“Nothing but the most resolute and decided action, on the part of the Government and its friends, can save the country from falling into hostile hands.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/henry-j-raymond-to-abraham-lincoln.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 22, 1864 (“There was heavy fighting on the Weldon Road yesterday evening, still held by the enemy; but no official account of the result if it has yet reached a result—has been received.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-22.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: August 22, 1864 (“It would be utterly absurd, except that it is melancholy, to see our currency depreciating so rapidly.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_6.html

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, August 23, 1864 (“Why should the Secretary of War try to deprive an officer like Farragut and the naval force of what is honestly their due?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-august_15.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, August 23, 1864 (“Still improving and gaining strength.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett-to_30.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Tuesday, August 23, 1864 (“If I had paper I would write down things that I hear and see from day to day. It would make a very interesting book.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_8.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, August 23, 1864 (“We have a pretty large Rebel army just in front of us. We drove it before us several days until it was reinforced when it slowly drove us back to this point.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 23, 1864 (“Major Duane told me a story of Captain Cullum (now General Cullum) that I thought eminently Cullumish . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_10.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, August 23, 1864 (“Skirmishing still continues on the pike and on the left of the line. It’s rumored the Nineteenth Corps charged the enemy this morning driving it back in confusion”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_28.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 23, 1864 (“Terribly hot.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_40.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 23, 1864 (“A number of the enemy’s sharpshooters are up in high trees. They annoy us very much.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_70.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, August 23, 1864 (“David Huff of our company died here today in the field hospital east of town, of the wound he received on the 12th of the month.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_16.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 23, 1864 (“Gen. Kemper told me this morning that he had 3000 of the reserves defending the Danville Road, the number Gen. Lee asked for.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-23.html

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, August 23, 1864 (“Unless some measures can be devised to replace our losses, the consequences may be disastrous.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/general-robert-e-lee-to-james-seddon.html

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Continued from Continued from August 18 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4258155/posts#27

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, August 24, 1864 (“The consul at Halifax is telegraphing me that Rebel armed vessels are soon to be off the coast.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-wednesday-august_11.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, August 24, 1864 (“We have had some pretty hard fighting to secure our lodgment on the Weldon Railroad. Grant and Warren are the heroes of the affair.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_27.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Wednesday, August 24, 1864 (“Major Morfit up here this eve; looked in to see me; thinks my chance for exchange just as good here as at Columbia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_9.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, August 24, 1864 – 5 A. M. (“I have had my usual bad luck with horses — Ruksh was wounded on Friday in the nigh fore leg, pastern joint”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_13.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to William H. Smith, August 24, 1864 (“An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped. You may feel perfectly sure I shall do no such thing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-william-h.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 24, 1864 (“what I don’t understand is, that the successes are Grant’s but the failures Meade’s.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_11.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: August 24, 1864 (“The Johnnies in our front are either tired out or short of ammunition or inclination, or else, like the quiet swine, ‘studying devilment.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/12/captain-charles-wright-wills-august-24.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, August 24, 1864 (“This is my twenty-second birthday; enemy still in front; skirmishing still on the left”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_9.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 24, 1864 (“Had some soup. Not particularly worse, but Rowe is, and Sanders also.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_34.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 24, 1864 (“Our brigade ordered outside the intrenchments to charge and drive the enemy out of the woods, also to burn a number of haystacks behind which the enemy kept reserves.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_43.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, August 24, 1864 (“William Snow died in our ward last night. This is a dreadfully hot day, and since our ward is so crowded, we make this a special scrub-day, to cool the atmosphere”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 24, 1864 (“I wrote a letter to the President to-day, urging the necessity of preventing the transportation of any supplies on the railroads except for distribution at cost, and thus exterminating the speculators.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-24.html

General Robert E. Lee to James A. Seddon, August 24, 1864 (“General A. P. Hill attacked the enemy in his intrenchments at Reams’ Station yesterday evening, and at the second assault carried his entire line.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/general-robert-e-lee-to-james-seddon.html

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Shelby Foote, The Civil War Narrative, Volume Three, Red River to Appomattox

Continued from August 7 (reply #12).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4256614/posts#12

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

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Continued from August 19 (reply #32)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4258155/posts#32

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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John Hay to John G. Nicolay, August 25, 1864 (“If the dumb cattle are not worthy of another term of Lincoln, then let the will of God be done, and the murrain of McClellan fall on them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/john-hay-to-john-g-nicolay-august-25.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Thursday, August 25, 1864 (“They have stopped our wheat bread; nothing but this coarse corn bread for these sick men. It will kill them at a fearful rate”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_10.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, August 25, 1864 (“Foster seems to be the man now through whom to work exchanges: if Will’s can be obtained, I would certainly manage it”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to-john_16.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, August 25, 1864 (“After the war is over (ten years from now) we shall be so old that some other life will be theoretically better”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_17.html

Colonel Theodore S. Bowers to Brigadier-General John Rawlins, August 25, 1864 (“I regret to say that Grant has been quite unwell for the past ten days. He feels languid and feeble and is hardly able to keep about”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/colonel-theodore-s-bowers-to-brigadier.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 25, 1864 (“Hancock, at Reams’ station, was destroying the railroad . . . The Rebels sent down a large force to drive him off.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_12.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Thursday, August 25, 1864 (“General Wilson’s division of cavalry started this morning on a reconnoissance towards Martinsburg”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_10.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 25, 1864 (“In my exuberance of joy must write a few lines. Received a letter from my brother, George W. Ransom, from Hilton Head. Contained only a few words.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_98.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 25, 1864 (“The rebs often called to us ‘How are you Horace Greeley? Does your mother know you are out?’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_30.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, August 25, 1864 (“There are now from five thousand to six thousand sick and wounded here, and still more are coming.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_18.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 25, 1864 (“No war news, except reports that Gen. Wheeler has destroyed much of the railroad in Sherman’s rear, and that Early has forced Sheridan back across the Potomac.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-25.html

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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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Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General Philip H. Sheridan, August 26, 1864—2:30 p.m. (“If the war is to last another year, we want the Shenandoah Valley to remain a barren waste.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, August 26, 1864 (“I have been for several days very much occupied, in the saddle all day, superintending the movements culminating in our securing a permanent lodgment on the Weldon Road.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_28.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Friday, August 26, 1864 (“Waters came to my tent and told me he had an order from Major Morfit, to send me to his office to go to Richmond! Can it be exchange?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_11.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, August 26, 1864 (“Thus, all the strategic results lie with us, and we hold the Weldon road.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_13.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Friday, August 26, 1864 (“As usual we were ordered to be under arms at 4 o’clock a. m. but the enemy has not yet appeared on our right, nor do I think they will”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_11.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 26, 1864 (“The letter from my brother has done good and cheered me up. Eye sight very poor and writing tires me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_45.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 26, 1864 (“The enemy in strong force, well posted. The skirmish was hot while it lasted. A number of our boys were wounded”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_36.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Friday, August 26, 1864 (“A large number of the boys are going home on furloughs. Their papers came in from the front today, signed up, and the boys are to start home tomorrow.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_19.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 26, 1864 (“The rich men and slave-owners are but too successful in getting out, and in keeping out of the service.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-26.html

General Robert E. Lee to Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early, August 26, 1864 (“If Sheridan’s force is as large as you suppose, I do not know that you could operate to advantage north of the Potomac.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/general-robert-e-lee-to-lieutenant_17.html