Harper’s Weekly – August 27, 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/4259588/posts

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Before Petersburg – 1, 4-5
Songs of the Army, by Private Miles O’Reilly – 2
The Situation – 2
The Administration and the Government – 2-3
Dawson’s “Federalist” – 3
To Union Men – 3
An Armistice – 3
Farragut – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Foreign News – 4
Mountain Flowers – 4
The Federal Officers’ Quarters in Charleston – 4, 6
Disciplined – 7-8
In the Van – 8
Day-Dreams – 8
Central Park in Summer – 9
Humors of the Day – 10
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XLII-XLIII – 10-11
Twilight in Camp – 12
Little Dilver’s Trudge – 12
Gen. Sherman’s Campaign – 13-14, 16
Paris Fashions for August – 15-16
“Sunshine” – 16
Interesting Items – 16
The Little Hero – 16-17 Garibaldi’s Wife – 17

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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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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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Charles Francis Adams Jr. to Abigail Brown Brooks Adams, August 27, 1864 (“if this kind of thing goes on, this steady fighting all summer long, Lee won’t have much left to winter in Richmond”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/charles-francis-adams-jr-to-abigail.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Saturday, August 27, 1864 (“In Richmond at last. Saw Ould. To go North by first flag truce boat!!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_12.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, August 27, 1864 (“Sheridan’s cavalry is splendid. It is the most like the right thing that I have seen during the war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sardis_12.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, August 27, 1864 (“Rumor says we captured one entire regiment and two stand of colors, etc.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_12.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 27, 1864 (“Have now written nearly through three large books, and still at it. The diary am confident will reach my people if I don’t.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_7.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 27, 1864 (“Owing to the severe duty our regiment is greatly reduced in numbers. We can only muster at this time, fit for duty, one hundred and twenty.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_21.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, August 27, 1864 (“The furloughed men left on the train this morning for their homes. This has been another very busy day with us, being our regular clean-up day.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_82.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 27, 1864 (“The people are smiling to-day from our success of Thursday, announced in the following dispatch from Gen. Lee . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-27.html

General Robert E. Lee to Brigadier General G. W. Custis Lee, August 27, 1864 (“Grant is moving his troops backward and forward, right and left, constantly, and it is difficult to discover his intention.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/general-robert-e-lee-to-brigadier_17.html

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Today’s posts:

John G. Nicolay, #3
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #4
George Templeton Strong, #5
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Ransom: "The diary am confident will reach my people if I don’t.”

Well, it reached all the way to Homer J. Simpson and thus to me....

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

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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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Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, August 28, 1864 – 2 p.m. (“Day before yesterday, we made a nice dash on the Rebs, killing two, wounding four or five, and capturing 70, all of a South Carolina Infantry Regiment.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_18.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, August 28, 1864 (“[Grant’s] wife is said to possess a great deal of good sense, and to have exercised a most salutary effect over him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/major-general-george-g-meade-to_29.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Sunday, August 28, 1864 (“Roast mutton for dinner. I am treated with marked consideration just now for some reason or other. The surgeon marked for me good diet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_13.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett to Harriet Plummer Bartlett, Sunday, August 28, 1864 (“I am “to be sent North by first flag of truce boat,” so I hope I may reach home before this letter does.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett-to.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, August 28, 1864 (“went through Charlestown about 3 o’clock p. m., with the bands playing ‘Old John Brown’ to the accompanying chorus of the entire column. It was grand!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_13.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: August 28, 1864 (“No news and no worse; set up part of the time. Dying off a third faster than ever before.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_82.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: August 28, 1864 (“We are pleased to be under the command of the Gallant Phil Sheridan. There will come a time when he will grab Early by the neck, we believe.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_6.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, August 28, 1864 (“No news. All things quiet. Rome, Georgia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_24.html

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, August 28, 1864 (“Two years ago I was the only Lincoln man I knew hereabouts, and I have come round to the same position. Yet he will be elected, or we are dreary humbugs.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/george-william-curtis-to-charles-eliot_8.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: August 28, 1864 (“Grant has attempted everything in his power to get Richmond, and was foiled in all. I hope he will withdraw soon. Why stay, with no prospect of success?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-august-28.html

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Today’s posts:

John G. Nicolay, reply #9
George Templeton Strong, #10
Johnny Green, #11
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #12

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Continued from August 25 (reply #33)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4259588/posts#33

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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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Continued from August 19 (reply #33).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4258155/posts#33

David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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Continued from August 17 (reply #20).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4258155/posts#20

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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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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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