Harper’s Weekly – September 3, 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/4261092/posts

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General Sherman’s Campaign – 1, 5-6
Reading on the Rail for Chicago – 2
No Peace for the Wicked – 2
The Chicago Convention – 2
Compromise or War – 2-3
Fine Feathers Do Not Make Fine Birds – 3
The “Peace” Apostle and the Major-Generals – 3
Two Nations on the Soil of One – 3
General Sherman and His Soldiers – 3
“Compromise with the South” – 3, 15
Literary – 3-4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Foreign News – 4
Recruiting at Newbern, N.C. – 4
General Daniel M’Cook – 5
John Grigg, Esq. – 7-8
Nassau, N.P. – 8
An Old Maid’s Story – 8-11
Humors of the Day – 11
Rich and Poor – 11
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XLIV – 11, 13
Farragut’s Fleet Passing the Forts and Obstructions at the Entrance of Mobile Bay – 12
The Song of the Blue-Bells – 14
The Window on the Porch – 14
The Chicago Convention – 16-17
Interesting Items – 17
Frear Farm – 17-19
The Sensational Novel – 19

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Continued from September 2 (reply #46)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4261092/posts#46

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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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, September 3, 1864 (“New York City is shouting for McClellan, and there is a forced effort elsewhere to get a favorable response to the almost traitorous proceeding at Chicago.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/03/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday_14.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, September 3, 1864 (“A report came in today that General Sherman has his headquarters in Atlanta, and that the rebel army is in retreat with our army after them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_49.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Saturday, September 3, 1864 (“I am getting very well, my face is not so thin as when I came here. I am stronger much.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_25.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: September 3, 1864 (“Rebels still here. Congratulatory order from Sherman commences, ‘Slocum occupied Atlanta yesterday at 11 a. m.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/02/captain-charles-wright-wills-september_14.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, September 3, 1864 (“heard to-day Atlanta had fallen. It’s glorious news! I was detailed for picket to-night. It looks like rain.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_22.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: September 3, 1864 (“Sanders sent in to us a quite large piece of fresh beef and a little salt; another God send.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_51.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: September 3, 1864 (“Our pickets on the advance were attacked. A hot skirmish was on.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 3, 1864 (“There is an ugly rumor on the streets to-day—disaster to Gen. Hood, and the fall of Atlanta. I cannot trace it to an authentic source”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_33.html

General John Bell Hood to General Braxton Bragg, September 3, 1864 – 1:45 p.m. (“For the offensive, my troops at present are not more than equal to their own numbers. To prevent this country from being overrun re-enforcements are absolutely necessary.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/general-john-bell-hood-to-general.html

General John Bell Hood to General Braxton Bragg, September 3, 1864 – 6:10 p.m. (“My telegram in cipher this morning is based upon the Supposition that the enemy will not content himself with Atlanta, but will continue offensive movements.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/general-john-bell-hood-to-general_30.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #3
George Templeton Strong, #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

[BrexitBen]

Yeah, it’s appropriate that the 2 U.S. presidents that Doris Kearns Goodwin idolizes most are Lyndon Johnson and Abraham Lincoln.

Goodwin is the court-historian for MSNBC, which is also quite fitting.

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Continued from August 22 (reply #11).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4259588/posts#11

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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

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

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Senator John Sherman to Major General William T. Sherman, September 4, 1864 (“As the possession of Atlanta was the ostensible point of your whole campaign, its possession is a complete triumph”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/08/senator-john-sherman-to-major-general_28.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Sunday, September 4, 1864 (“To-day I was to have been in Baltimore and comfort and freedom, but here I am still in misery, a prisoner.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_26.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, Sunday, September 4, 1864 – 6 a.m. (“We are on the right flank of the Army again — indeed, are the only cavalry there — and are constantly on the go.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_23.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Anna Jackson Lowell, September 4, 1864 (“You must not feel despondent about public affairs. Lincoln is going to be reelected.”)

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

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Sunday Evening, September 4, 1864 (“We had one of the fiercest fights yesterday I was ever in. It was between the South Carolina and Mississippi Divisions under General Kershaw and six regiments of the Kanawha Division.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_9.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: September 4, 1864 (“the boys, showing their contempt of the enemy’s power to do harm, took their guns all to pieces and set to polishing the should-be bright parts, right in view of the enemy’s pickets.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/captain-charles-wright-wills-september_75.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, September 4, 1864 (“The enemy appeared on the left of our division about dark and commenced skirmishing, but all’s quiet at 9 o’clock p. m.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_23.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: September 4, 1864 )“Anything good to eat lifts me right up, and the beef soup has done it.
“The beef critter is a noble animal. Very decided exchange rumors.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_39.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: September 4, 1864 (Corp. Lynch ordered to take a detail to the rear and bring back some ammo. It is harder than you might think.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch_29.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, September 4, 1864 (“The boys in my ward are all getting along fine, with the exception of two or three, and it is doubtful whether they will ever again be well.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_21.html

From Company D 39 Iowa (“The news of the capture of Atlanta reached us yesterday, and to-day was added the capture Mobile. We are all in good spirits and will all vote for Old Abe.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/10/from-company-d-39-iowa.html

Lieutenant-General William J. Hardee to Jefferson Davis, September 4, 1864 – 11:30 a.m. (“Unless this army is speedily and heavily re-enforced Georgia and Alabama will be overrun.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/lieutenant-general-william-j-hardee-to.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 4, 1864 (“Atlanta has fallen, and our army has retreated some thirty miles; such is Hood’s dispatch, received last night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_51.html

Louise Wigfall to Charlotte Cross Wigfall, September 4, 1864 (“Hood, with the rest of the army, is in Atlanta; the army thus being cut right in two. Reports came yesterday and to-day that Atlanta has been evacuated.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/louise-wigfall-to-charlotte-cross_19.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today’s posts:

“Lincoln,” reply #9
Lincoln letter, #10
John G. Nicolay, #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
John Jackman, #13
Links to 14 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

[Hebrews 11:6]

Wonderfully revealing and magnificently inspiring letter by Lincoln to Eliza P. Gurney. Many thanks for including it.

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I included her picture with my X version of the post.

https://x.com/USADeardorff/status/1831341681188508048

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Continued from September 4 (reply #9).

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from August 23 (reply #20)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4259588/posts#20

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes