Harper’s Weekly – October 1, 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/4266806/posts

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“Rally Round the Flag” – 1, 11
Gen. Warren Extending His Lines – 1-2
The U.S. Torpedo-Boat “New Era” – 1, 14
Soldiers’ Hymn – 2
The Chicago Candidate – 2-3
Gen. Sherman on “A Cessation of Hostilities” – 3
Major-General George H. Pendleton B. M’Clellan – 3
The Simple Question – 3
Forewarned is Forearmed – 3-4
“A Source of Fear and Dread” – 4
Sheridan and the Shenandoah – 4
The Two Dromios – 4
“Peace” – 4
Campaign Pictures – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Interesting Items – 5
Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows, the Sequel – 5
The Halt – 6
General Sherman’s Victory – 7, 15-18
Square Talk – 8
The Little Doctor – 8-9
Puss Burbank’s Enemy – 9-10
Two Ways of Looking at It – 10
Reminiscent – 10
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XLIX-L – 10, 12
Succotash, by Lewis Gaylord Clark – 12-13
Humors of the Day – 13-14
Monument to Stephen A. Douglas – 14
The Fisher – 18
The Acrobat’s Revenge – 18-19

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

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, October 1, 1864 (“Seward and Stanton both endeavor to avoid Cabinet consultations on questions of their own Departments.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/05/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-october_2.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, October 1, 1864 (“We have been actively engaged for the last two days, and yesterday we had a pretty sharp fight, gaining some advantages and meeting with some checks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/major-general-george-g-meade-to_9.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, October 1, 1864 (“General Crook told him [Gen. Joseph A.J. Lightburn] the division was officered to his satisfaction and ordered him back to Harpers Ferry to await orders.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_84.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 1, 1864 (“A prisoner of war nearly a year have stood and went through the very worst kind of treatment. Am getting ravenously hungry, but they won’t give me much to eat.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_28.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, October 1, 1864 (“This afternoon the Third and Fourth Divisions of the Seventeenth Corps started on an expedition toward Fairburn, Georgia, where, it is reported, there is a large force of the rebels.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_18.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 1, 1864 (“If this be so, to-morrow will probably be fought the great battle for Richmond. Doubtless, Grant is eager to hold some position from which he can shell the city.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-1.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: October 1864 (“We have got the smallpox in prison, and from six to twelve are taken out dead daily. We can buy from prisoners rats, 25 cents each, killed and dressed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-private-louis-leon-october-1864.html

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"We can buy from prisoners rats, 25 cents each, killed and dressed.”

My father saw Europe during WW2 and said later, "If you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything."

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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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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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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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Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, October 2, 1864 (“Great droves of cattle and sheep are going past us north. Everything eatable is taken or destroyed. No more supplies to Rebels from this valley.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_29.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, October 2, 1864 (“There are now some appearances which would indicate that we may push on further south.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-sophia_49.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, October 2, 1864 (“Grant orders all provisions destroyed so “a crow flying from Staunton to Winchester must carry his rations.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_64.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, October 2, 1864 (Lt. Col. Lyman tells of some Christian Commissioners he encountered on his trip back to the front.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_17.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, Friday, October 2, 1864 (“I got to the front about one, and met General Meade at the Peeble house.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_22.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: October 2, 1864 (“Orders to embark tomorrow morning at 5 p. m. for Bayou Sara on board the transport Illinois.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 2, 1864 (“Ate some sweet potato to-day, and it beats everything how I am gaining. Drink lots of gruel, and the more I drink the more I want.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, October 2, 1864 (“Our expedition was sent out for the purpose of cutting off their retreat from Marietta, but we were too late.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_71.html

Jefferson Davis to General P. G. T. Beauregard, October 2, 1864 (“I desire that with as little delay as practicable you will assume command of the military departments now commanded, respectively, by General Hood and Lieutenant-General Taylor.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/jefferson-davis-to-general-p-g-t.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 2, 1864 (“I see by a Northern paper that Gen. Grant is having his children educated at Burlington, N. J.; perhaps at the same institutions where mine were educated”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-2.html

General John Bell Hood to General Braxton Bragg, October 2, 1864 (“To-night my right will be at Powder Springs with my left at Lost Mountain. This will, I think, force the enemy to move on me or to move south.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/general-john-bell-hood-to-general_14.html

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, October 2, 1864 (“If Sherman is forced away from Atlanta and we can hold Richmond this winter, I believe we shall have peace.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/06/dr-spencer-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother_3.html

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Today’s posts:

John G. Nicolay, reply #7
John Hay, #8
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #9
John Jackman, #10
Links to 12 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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

Continued from September 10 (reply #3).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4263929/posts#3

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

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Continued from September 27 (reply #20)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4266806/posts#20

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, October 3, 1864 (“[Seward] is not yet dispossessed of his early error that the government can be carried on by executive order regardless of Department or laws.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/05/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-october-3.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, October 3, 1864 (“Afterwards Colonel Lyman had the shell dug up, and is going to preserve it. How would you like to have me back minus a leg and on crutches?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/major-general-george-g-meade-to_10.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, October 3, 1864 (“The night of my arrival, curiously enough, was the eve of a grand movement.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_19.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, Friday, October 3, 1864 (The trials of the staff officer.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_23.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 3, 1864 (“about thirty die now each day. Men who walked away from Andersonville, and come to get treatment, are too far gone to rally, and die.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_6.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, October 3, 1864 (A dramatic account of the day’s fighting at Allatoona.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, October 3, 1864 (“it is reported that Hood is moving north with the main part of his army, and that he is now in the vicinity of Kenesaw.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_20.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 3, 1864 (“It is said the enemy, that were a few days ago menacing Richmond, are recrossing to the Petersburg side.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-3.html

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Today’s posts:

Map from Shelby Foote Civil War Narrative, “William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #13
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #14
John Jackman, #15
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #16

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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