Harper’s Weekly – September 10, 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/4262456/posts

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Archbishop McCloskey – 1-2
Isometric View of the Virginia Campaign – 1, 6
Francis Muller, the Murderer, from London – 1, 3, 19
The North to the South – 3
The Next Governor of New York – 3
Union for Victory, and Victory for Union – 3-4
An Instructive Game for the Canvass – 4
Friends of the Enemy – 4
The Chicago Convention – 4
General Seymour Upon the War – 4
Doctors Disagree – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Interesting Items – 5
Water-Spout in Albemarle Sound – 7
Farragut’s Victory – 7-9, 12-14
The Love-Knot – 9
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XLV – 9-12
Farragut – 15
Lou Venestre – 15
Succotash, by Lewis Gaylord Clarke – 15-16
Whaling at the Cape de Verdes – 16-17
Humors of the Day – 17
Forrest’s Raid – 18-19
General John W. Geary – 20-22
General Wright and Staff – 21
Ins and Outs – 22-23
The Battle of the Bulls and Bears – 23

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Continued from September 2 (reply #42).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4261092/posts#42

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

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, September 10, 1864 (“Chase will now support Lincoln in order to defeat McClellan.”)

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

Major-General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Orders, No. 70, September 10, 1864 (Ten day truce for Atlanta residents to evacuate.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/major-general-william-t-shermans.html

Major-General Oliver O. Howard: General Field Orders No. 16, September 10, 1864 (Congratulations to his army for the Atlanta campaign.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/major-general-oliver-o-howard-general.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: September 10, 1864 (“General Early will have to keep a sharp lookout for our gallant Phil Sheridan.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, September 10, 1864 (“It is reported that the rebels are planning to raid this place, for we have but few soldiers here to defend it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_27.html

Major-General William T. Sherman to General John Bell Hood, September 10, 1864 (“Nor is it necessary to appeal to the dark history of war when recent and modern examples are so handy”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_17.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, September 10, 1864 (Gen. Meade is preoccupied with the ill health of his son, Sergeant.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/major-general-george-g-meade-to.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Saturday, September 10, 1864 (“The boat is up; no particulars. I hope I may get off, but hardly expect it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to John M. Forbes, September 10, 1864 (“I have great confidence in Sheridan. He works at this business as if he were working for himself”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to-john.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Henry Lee Higginson, September 10, 1864 (Col. Lowell waxes philosophical.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to-henry.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Brigadier-General Francis C. Barlow, September 10, 1864 (“Lincoln is certainly much the best candidate for the permanency of our republican institutions, and that is the main thing”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_7.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, September 10, 1864 (“I have made my election returns. It’s very pleasant this evening in camp, but dull.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 10, 1864 (“Gen. J. H. Morgan was betrayed by a woman, a Mrs. Williamson, who was entertaining him.”)

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

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: September 10, 1864 (Judith McGuire is sad about losing her rooms and the grumbling in Richmond.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_18.html

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Forgot to ping the list to U.S. Grant at #4

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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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Major-General John A. Logan to Officers and Soldiers of the Fifteenth Army Corps, September 11, 1864

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/major-general-john-logan-to-officers.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, Sunday, September 11, 1864 – 8 a.m. (“I have read McClellan’s letter. It won’t do, though it’s much better than a Peace platform.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_42.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, September 11, 1864 – 7:55 p.m. (“I would be glad if you would send me a telegram for publication, urging the necessity of immediately filling up the army by draft.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/edwin-m-stanton-to-lieutenant-general_15.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Sunday, September 11, 1864 (“The boat goes to-morrow. Officers permanently disabled are to be sent. My rank will prevent my going under that head.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_3.html

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett to Harriet Plummer Bartlett, September 11, 1864 (“Commissioner Ould said I could not go because the (rebel) General Walker, for whom I was to be exchanged, had not been sent up. So back to prison I came.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/brigadier-general-william-f-bartlett-to.html

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fessenden Morse: September 11, 1864 (“General Sherman is going to make this a strictly military point, and has ordered all citizens, North or South, to remove within a limited time”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/major-charles-fessenden-morse-september_27.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, September 11, 1864 (“I shall be glad when Early is licked, as he surely will be for Sheridan fights like a tornado — he does things.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_27.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, September 11, 1864 (“I have only five boys in my ward now with one nurse. The ward is to be closed in a few days and some of the wounded out in the tents will occupy it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_53.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 11, 1864 (“The government should wage war upon the speculators—enemies as mischievous as the Yankees.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_4.html

Petition of the Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta to Rescind Major-General William T. Sherman’s Evacuation Order, September 11, 1864 (“We ask leave most earnestly, but respectfully, to petition you to reconsider the order requiring them to leave Atlanta.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/petition-of-mayor-and-councilmen-of.html

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Continued from September 2 (reply #48).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4261092/posts#48

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from September 10 (reply #4).

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

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, September 12, 1864 (“Both parties evidently consider the result [of the Maine election] as indicative of the great result in the fall”)

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

Governor Oliver P. Morton et al to Edwin M. Stanton, September 12, 1864 (Representatives from around Indiana want to delay the draft and bring soldiers home to vote.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/governor-oliver-p-morton-et-al-to-edwin.html

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General William T. Sherman, September 12, 1864 (“I feel you have accomplished the most gigantic undertaking given to any general in this war, and with a skill and ability that will be acknowledged in history as unsurpassed, if not unequaled.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_5.html

Major-General William T. Sherman to James M. Calhoun et al, September 12, 1864 (“War is cruelty and you cannot refine it”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_98.html

Diary of Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Monday, September 12, 1864 (“The boat goes this morning. Thirty officers went. It was hard to see them go and think that in twelve hours they would be under the old flag.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/01/diary-of-brigadier-general-william-f_5.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, September 12, 1864 (“You’ll wonder at me, being willing to carry anything so “gaudy,” but my well-known modesty enabled me to do it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_10.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, September 12, 1864 (“Our armies are rapidly filling up. I shall not be surprised if Grant should soon find himself able to make important moves.”)

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

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Monday, September 12, 1864 (“I get better work out of them by keeping ahead of them if I only can. Some of them are so dauntlessly courageous they inspire me.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_29.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, September 12, 1864 (“We have received no mail and no late papers for some time, because the main railroad to Atlanta has been torn up by the rebels for some distance between Nashville and Chattanooga.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_29.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: September 12, 1864 (“There is a rumor of an intention to abandon Petersburg, and that 20,000 old men and boys, etc. must be put in the trenches on our side immediately to save Richmond and the cause.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-september_45.html

General John Bell Hood to Major-General William T. Sherman, September 12, 1864 (“I see nothing in your communication which induces me to modify the language of condemnation with which I characterized your order.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/05/general-john-bell-hood-to-major-general_19.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: September 12, 1864 (“General Hood telegraphs that the inhabitants of Atlanta have been ordered to leave their homes, to go they know not whither. Lord, how long must we suffer such things?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_19.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #10
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
John Jackman, #13
Lincoln letters, #14
John G. Nicolay, #15
George Templeton Strong, #16
Links to 12 items at Civil War Notebook, #17

[Hebrews 11:6]

Gen. Sherman is teaching Gen. Hood that most ancient of lessons:

Might Makes Right

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