Harper’s Weekly – October 22, 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/4271129/posts

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Grant’s Campaign Against Richmond – 1, 5-6, 10, 15-16
“Peace” – 2
Pennsylvania – 2
Ohio – 2
Indiana – 2
The Georgia Peace Platform – 2
The General Issue – 2-3
Davis’s Last Speech and Confession – 3
General Dix and the Chicago Convention – 3
General John A. Logan – 3
A Peace Man – 3
Interesting Items – 3-4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
The Copperhead Plan for Subjugating the South – 4
The Song of Autumn – 7
Little Ben – 7-8
Mad Annette – 8-9
Sheridan in Pursuit of Early – 11, 18
Growing Old – 18
Brother Paul – 18-19

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Continued from September 27 (reply #19).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4266806/posts#19

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

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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 Mead, October 22, 1864 (“if not modified by any later intelligence, will prove one of the greatest feats of the war, and place Sheridan in a position that it will be difficult for any other general to approach.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/major-general-george-g-meade-to_19.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 22, 1864 (“Lieut. Davis commands the prison in Savannah. Is the same individual who officiated at Andersonville during Wirtz’s sickness last summer.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_27.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, October 22, 1864 (“it appears to the rank and file of the men that Sherman must have given up trying to catch Hood, or else we would not remain so long at one place.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_8.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 22, 1864 (“The news of Early’s disaster, and loss of artillery at Strasburg, is confirmed, and casts a new vexation over the country.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october_58.html

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I thought this was history, not current events.

“The Democrats are so desperate. They have no principle, no convictions, no idea to fight for.”

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Yeah, I thought that was a choice entry by Strong. I amplified it beyond my usual readers on X.

Just wait until next week when it is discovered that the Democrats have been caught engaging in vote fraud.

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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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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, October 23, 1864 (“I have seen to-day for the first time a most virulent attack on me in Henry Ward Beecher’s paper, the Independent.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/major-general-george-g-meade-to_20.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: October 23, 1864 (“A day of rest and washing. The cavalry was out some dozen miles southwest, and report the enemy intrenched and in force.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/captain-charles-wright-wills-october-23.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, October 23, 1864 (“All is quiet in the front. I was relieved from picket this morning. We had company inspection this evening.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_13.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 23, 1864 (“the hearty officers acting adjutant-generals, quartermasters, and commissaries-ride their sleek horses through the city every afternoon. This, while the cause is perishing for want of men and horses!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october_48.html

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

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Major-General George G. Meade to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, October 24, 1864 (Gen. Meade shares with Gen. Grant the critical article he wrote to Mrs. Meade about yesterday.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/major-general-george-g-meade-to_22.html

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General George G. Meade, October 24, 1864 (Grant replies, defending his subordinate.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, October 24, 1864 (Gen. Smith is on leave in Massachusetts. He sends a thoughtful letter to his mother.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_21.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: October 24, 1864 (“Came through a little hamlet called Blue Pond from a little lake in the neighborhood of a dirty mud color. Plenty of milk and honey.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/captain-charles-wright-wills-october-24.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 24, 1864 (“Jumping right along toward health if not wealth. discarded crutches and have now two canes.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/03/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_30.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, October 24, 1864 (“not more than half of the plantations have been cultivated this past season, as the negroes were taken south by their masters to keep them from falling into the hands of the ‘Yanks’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_10.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 24, 1864 (“Gov. Smith has been writing letters to Gen. Lee, asking that Gen. Early be superseded in the Valley. Pity it had not been done!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october_69.html

General Robert E Lee to Captain John K. Mitchell, October 24, 1864 (Gen. Lee on how the Confederate navy can aid in the defense of Richmond)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/general-robert-e-lee-to-captain-john-k.html

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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 William T. Sherman to Edwin M. Stanton, October 25, 1864 (“I much prefer to keep negroes yet for some time to come in a subordinate state, for our prejudices, yours as well as mine, are not yet schooled for absolute equality.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_13.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, October 25, 1864 (“His reply proposes to furnish me with copies of the despatches he has written in which my name has been mentioned.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/major-general-george-g-meade-to_60.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, October 25, 1864 (“I suspect that apprehension is felt at Washington that the Rebels will try to get up a raid into Maryland or Pennsylvania to create a panic about the time of the Presidential election”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/07/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb_25.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: October 25, 1864 (“Found the Rebels about noon to-day in position behind a rail work, running across from Lookout Mountain to Coosa river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/captain-charles-wright-wills-october-25.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, October 25, 1864 (“All I need is a reasonable time for my wound to mend. A man with a part of his head shot away can’t be expected to be fit for duty a month after.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_19.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 25, 1864 (“I am congratulated occasionally by prisoners who saw me in Andersonville. They wonder at my being alive”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_16.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, October 25, 1864 (“The route is supposed to be down through the States of Alabama and Mississippi and then up through to Memphis, Tennessee.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_12.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 25, 1864 (“A great many are deserting under a deliberate conviction that this government is, and is likely to be, as tyrannous as Lincoln’s.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october_22.html

Dr. Spencer G. Welch to Cordelia Strother Welch, October 25, 1864 (“I am anxious to hear something from General Hood, for if he can whip Sherman at Atlanta the situation may be entirely changed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/06/dr-spencer-g-welch-to-cordelia-strother_6.html

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The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War, Chief Editor, Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito

Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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Captain Charles Wright Wills: October 26, 1864 (“Got back on the 25th, and have been laying quiet. Our foragers have been skirmishing a good deal with the enemies’ scouts, but few casualties however.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/07/captain-charles-wright-wills-october-26.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, October 26, 1864 (“I went up to the hospital with him and he gave me an introduction to Dr. James who examined my wounds and gave me a certificate for thirty days extension of sick leave”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_20.html

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fessenden Morse: October 26, 1864 (“General Sherman says that, as the Georgians have seen fit to get in our rear and break our railroad, we must live on Georgia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/08/lieutenant-colonel-charles-fessenden_16.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: October 26, 1864 (“Talk that all are to be vaccinated any way, whether they want to or not. Don’t suppose it will do any harm if good matter is used. Vaccinate me if they want to.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/04/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_14.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, October 26, 1864 (“The weather is quite pleasant. Nothing of importance. Still in camp. Our work, outside of regular picket duty, is very light here.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_85.html

Jefferson Davis’ Proclamation Appointing a Day for Public Worship, October 26, 1864

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/04/jefferson-davis-proclamation-appointing.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: October 26, 1864 (“Gen. Early has issued an address to his army, reproaching it for having victory wrested out of its hands by a criminal indulgence in the plunder found in the camps captured from the enemy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-october_4.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: October 26, 1864 (“General Early’s second misfortune was very depressing to us all. A striking and admirable address from him to his soldiers was in the morning papers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_28.html

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Continued from October 19 (reply #18).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4271129/posts#18

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from October 19 (reply #19).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4271129/posts#19

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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