Harper’s Weekly – October 8, 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/4268269/posts

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Major-General Sheridan – 1, 14
The Bayonet Charge – 2
Union Along the Whole Line – 2
Cant – 2
A Question and an Answer – 2
No Escape – 2-3
To Your Knees, Yankees! – 3
A Few Questions – 3
A Plain Truth – 3
Two Ways of Hearing Good News – 3
From Petersburg – 3
Campaign Pictures – 3
From Atlanta – 3
Western Illinois Sanitary Fair – 3
General Seymour – 3-4
The Seven-Thirty Loan – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
Marvelous Equestrian Performance on Two Animals – 4
The Battle of Winchester – 5, 14, 18
Atlanta – 6-7, 15-17
Foreign News – 8
Song of the Peace Republican – 8
My Punishment – 8-9
Humors of the Day – 9
“No Rest” – 9
General Russell – 9
Map of the Virginia Campaign, Showing the Theatre of General Grant’s Combinations – 10
Before Petersburg – 11, 18
Christy Andrews – 12-13
Good-By; God Be with Thee! – 13
Tit for Tat – 13-14
Interesting Items – 14
Colonel Grower – 14-15
The “Georgia” – 15
Colonel Charley’s Wife – 18-19

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

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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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Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, October 8, 1864 (“A fine view of the Valley, marred by the fires and smoke of burning stacks and barns. A bitter, windy, cold afternoon and night. Rebel cavalry harassing our rear.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_84.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: October 8, 1864 (“We occupy the old Johnny skirmish pits. It was outrageously cold last night. I elected myself fireman and did not neglect my duties.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/captain-charles-wright-wills-october-8.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 8, 1864 (“It is said Savannah will be in our hands in less than two months. Some Irish citizens told Mike so. Union army victorious everywhere.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_17.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: October 8, 1864 (“Since our return from the Allatoona Pass, one of the Seventh’s drummer boys has died; little Willie White, of Company H. His brother John fell a victim at Allatoona.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_7.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, October 8, 1864 (“The entire Fifteenth Corps left on an expedition this afternoon, but their destination is not known. The rebels left Lost mountain, retreating to Dallas, Georgia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_25.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 8, 1864 (“From Gen. Hood we have a dispatch, saying Major-Gen. French attacked Altoona day before yesterday. He carried all the outworks, but failed at the inner one”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/01/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october-8.html

General John Bell Hood to General Braxton Bragg, October 8, 1864 (“When Sherman found this army on his communications he left Atlanta hurriedly with his main body and formed line of battle near Kenesaw Mountain.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/general-john-bell-hood-to-general.html

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Whwn I think of Ben Butler, chamber pots come to mind for some odd reason.

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Continued from October 5 (reply #24)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4268269/posts#24

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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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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Strong’s editor identified the judicial visitor as Dudley Selden. According to my search result he died in 1855. This sounds to me more like Judge Henry R. Selden.

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

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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, October 9, 1864 (An officer on gen. Meade’s staff was shot trying to escape from guerrillas.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/major-general-george-g-meade-to_12.html

Major General William T. Sherman to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, October 9, 1864 (“I can make the march, and make Georgia howl.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/08/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_3357.html

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Colonel Robert Ould, October 9, 1864 (A Union soldier attempted rape and escaped into the Confederate lines. Gen Butler wants him returned.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/major-general-benjamin-f-butler-to.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, Sunday, October 9, 1864 – 7 a.m. (“We had a skirmish yesterday with their cavalry. Lieutenant Tucker wounded and Sergeant Wakefield; — the roan horse killed”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_49.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, October 9, 1864 (“Our cavalry flogged the Rebels handsomely today. Took nine pieces of artillery and many prisoners and train.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/04/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_29.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: October 9, 1864 (“after a cold, tiresome march, the train corraled, and we built fires and turned in beside them for the balance of the night, right at the northeast base of Kenesaw Mountain.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/captain-charles-wright-wills-october-9.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 9, 1864 (“Mike still harping on escape, but I attend right to the business of getting enough to eat. Although can’t eat much have the appetite all the same.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_19.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, October 9, 1864 (“The Fifteenth and Seventeenth Army Corps were sent here to put the railroad track in repair. The rebels tore up about nine miles of track, burning the ties and twisting the rails.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_26.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Sunday, October 9, 1864 (“It is characteristic of the President to adhere to what he deems just and proper, regardless of anticipated consequences. This was the habit of Cæsar—but he fell.”)

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

General John Bell Hood to James A. Seddon, October 19, 1864 (“Headquarters will be to-morrow at Gadsden, where I hope not to be delayed more than forty-eight hours, when I shall move for the Tennessee River.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/general-john-bell-hood-to-james-seddon.html

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Today’s posts:

“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” reply #7
John Hay, #8
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #9
George Templeton Strong, #10
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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Continued from October 7 (reply #34).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4268269/posts#34

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, October 10, 1864 (The Navy Dept. was tricked into paying a bounty on Marine Corps recruits.)

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

John Hay to John J. Nicolay: October 10, 1864 (“Kelly was here this morning. He seemed to be in a great hurry, as he only staid two hours and a half, and didn’t talk about himself more than nine-tenths of the time.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/john-hay-to-john-j-nicolay-october-10.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, October 10, 1864 (“This valley will feed and forage no more Rebel armies. It is completely and awfully devastated”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/06/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_23.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 10, 1864 (“Many die here but not from lack of attention or medicine. They haven’t the vitality to rally after their sufferings at Andersonville.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_20.html

General John Bell Hood to Brigadier-General William H. Jackson, October 10, 1864 – 8 a.m. (“General Hood desires you will move on Rome and make considerable of a demonstration from your side of the river, but be careful not to fire into the town.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/general-john-bell-hood-to-brigadier.html

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General George H. Thomas, October 10, 1864 – 12 p.m. (“It looks as though Hood is bound for Tuscumbia. He is now crossing the Coosa below Rome, heading west.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/07/major-general-william-t-sherman-to.html

Colonel Charles Russell Lowell to Josephine Shaw Lowell, Sunday, October 10, 1864 – 12 p.m. (After the Battle of Tom’s Brook, with notes by Gens. Sheridan and Early.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/colonel-charles-russell-lowell-to_22.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, Friday, October 10, 1864 (“The good General [Meade] is fond of sitting awhile and talking after meals. He discourses sometimes on the art military and said it was ‘a godlike occupation’!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_27.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: October 10, 1864 (“I picked up some black oak acorns to-day from a tree that shades the graves of 12 or 15 of our soldiers, mostly from our regiment, who fell on the 27th. They were buried where they fell.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/05/captain-charles-wright-wills-october-10.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: October 10, 1864 (“at 4 p. m. we were steaming up the river. We had the First Louisiana Infantry, 161st New York Infantry, 23d Wisconsin, a squadron of First Louisiana Cavalry, and six pieces of artillery on board the transports”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_10.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, October 10, 1864 (“A large detail from our regiment was put to work on the railroad. Three of us, Hiram Frank, John D. Moore and I, took French leave this afternoon and climbed to the top of Kenesaw mountain.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_27.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 10, 1864 (“Gen. Beauregard left Opeleka on the 7th inst. for Hood’s army, so in a few days we may expect a battle.”)

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

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: October 10, 1864 (“They seem to be putting forth their utmost efforts against us. I pray that our armies may be able to resist them and drive them to their own land.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_37.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lee,” reply #13
Lincoln note to Henry W. Hoffman, #14
John G. Nicolay, #15
John Hay, #16
George Templeton Strong, #17
Links to 13 items at Civil War Notebook, #18

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Continued from September 23 (reply #36)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4265351/posts#36

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals