Harper’s Weekly – November 12, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | November 12, 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

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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/4275856/posts

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Sheridan’s Victory – 1-2
Forging Soldiers’ Votes – 1, 6
Riding to Vote – 1
The Eighth of November – 1, 3
The Army Vote Fraud – 3
The Lesson of the Raids – 3
Straws – 3
Podsnappery – 3-4
Colonel Lowell – 4, 18
“Election Day” – 4, 9
An Unanswerable Question – 4
A Soldier’s Vote – 4
A Military Blister for Copperheads – 4
Our “Patterns” – 4
Speke – 4
Humors of the Day – 4
Valley of the Shenandoah-General Sheridan’s Wagon Trains at Early Morning – 5
Before Petersburg and Richmond – 5, 14-15, 18
Domestic Intelligence – 7
A Picture in Water-Colors – 7
Buying a Recruit – 7-8
False Hope – 8
A Romance of Lima – 8, 10
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch LIV-LV – 10-12
Marie’s Curse – 12-13
Interesting Items – 13
Don’t Swap Horses – 13
General James B. Ricketts – 16
General Bidwell – 16, 18
General Cuvier Grover – 17-18
The Diamond Bracelets – 18

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

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Continued from November 5 (reply #3)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4275856/posts#3

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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

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Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, November 12, 1864 (“Captain [Richard R.] Blazer and his scouts make some captures; a deserter from Sixth Corps was married in ten days after.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, November 12, 1864 (“We have the usual play of rumor about cabinets — everybody seems inclined to heave out Stanton: some to heave him up to the Supreme Court”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_14.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 12, 1864 (“The Rubicon is passed, the die is cast, and all that sort of thing. We to-day severed our own cracker line.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-november_78.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: November 12, 1864 (“Have just heard the election news — Mr. Lincoln again elected, and “Little Mac” nowhere. Just about as I expected.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_25.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, November 12, 1864 (“The railroad from Dalton south, wherever Sherman’s army goes, is to be destroyed and all stations and public buildings burned.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_29.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 12, 1864 (“The money-changers and speculators are all in their places, preying upon the helpless women and children; while the clerks are still kept in the trenches”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_6.html

General John Bell Hood to Jefferson Davis, November 12, 1864 (Gen. Hood explains why he is not pursuing Sherman.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/general-john-bell-hood-to-jefferson_7.html

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: November 12, 1864 (“Warped and put in dresses for the loom. Oh, this blockade gives us work to do for all hands!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-november-12.html

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Today’s posts:

“The West Point Atlas of War: The Civil War” map, Sherman’s March to the Sea, reply #3
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #4
George Templeton Strong, #5
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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Continued from November 8 (reply #23).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4275856/posts#23

David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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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 Meade, November 13, 1864 (“I suppose you have seen Mr. Davis’s Message to the Confederate Congress. Although a dignified and well-written document, to my mind it betrays unmistakable evidences of despondency.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-general-george-g-meade-to.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, Sunday, November 13, 1864 (“Generals Sheridan and Crook both voted for him. It was General Sheridan’s first vote!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, November 13, 1864 (“General Powell on Front Royal road captures from McCausland two guns, two colors, and two hundred prisoners!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/rutherford-b-hayes23rd-oh-inf.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, November 13, 1864 (“General Gibbon dined with us and was largely impressed by our having oysters on the shell, which he pitched into with the fervor of a Baltimorean long separated from his favorites.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_17.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 13, 1864 (“Coming through Atlanta the smoke almost blinded us. I believe everything of any importance there is on fire.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-november_28.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: November 13, 1864 (Sgt. Ransom turned down an opportunity to work for the Confederates in exchange for special treatment.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_29.html

Diary of Sergeant Daniel L. Ambrose: November 13, 1864 (“Signal lights are twinkling upon Kenesaw. Evidently Sherman is conversing with Howard and Slocum, his right and left bowers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-sergeant-daniel-l-ambrose_26.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, November 13, 1864 (“Every man seems to think he has a free hand to touch the match. The nice little town of Marietta which we left behind this morning will doubtless be burned before the last of Sherman’s army leaves the place.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 13, 1864 (“There is a dispatch from the West, relating to Gen. Forrest’s operations in Tennessee, understood to be good news. I did not wait to see, knowing the papers will have it to-morrow.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_78.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: November 13, 1864 (“The war news seems encouraging. Many persons are very despondent, but I do not feel so — perhaps I do not understand the military signs.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_30.html

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Today’s posts:

“Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” reply #8
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #9
George Templeton Strong, #10
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #11

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

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Continued from November 2 (reply #22).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4274240/posts#22

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan

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

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Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, November 14, 1864 (Lt. Col. Lyman relates an amusing (to 1864 sensibilities) anecdote about negro troops.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_18.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 14, 1864 (“The cracker line is cut now and we don’t want to lie still eating up our precious rations.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-november_17.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: November 14, 1864 (“Hendryx and I did that when we left Belle Isle, and we brought up in Andersonville. Will let those do the flanking who want to, I don’t.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/06/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom.html

Diary of Sergeant Daniel L. Ambrose: November 14, 1864 (“In the evening we cross the Chattahoochee and go into camp for the night nine miles from Atlanta.”)

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

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, November 14, 1864 (“We tore up the railroad tracks through Atlanta and burned all the public buildings.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_87.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 14, 1864 (“Gen. Forrest is doing wonders in Tennessee, as the appended dispatch from Gen. Beauregard shows . . .”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/05/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_66.html

Major Osman Latrobe to Lieutenant Colonel Walter H. Taylor, November 14, 1864 (“Major-General Pickett reports about 100 men from his command in the guard-house charged with the crime of desertion.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/08/major-osman-latrobe-to-lieutenant.html

Confederate Congress, published November 14, 1864 (Price controls and amnesty for certain hitherto anti-Confederacy citizens.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/04/confederate-congress-published-november.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln letter to Gen. Hurlbut, reply #13
“Lee,” #14
Johnny Green, #15
George Templeton Strong, #16
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #17

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Continued from November 10 (reply #43).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4275856/posts#43

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

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Continued from November 2 (reply #21).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4274240/posts#21

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two