Harper’s Weekly – November 19, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | November 19, 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/4277826/posts

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The Destruction of the “Albemarle” – 1-3
Guns Captured by Sheridan – 1, 11
Battery Going Into Position – 1, 12
The Election – 1-2
Bryant’s Birthday – 2
The Warning of History – 2
The Government – 2
The President and the Lieutenant-General – 2-3
Railway Accidents – 3
Parties – 3
The Artists’ Fund Society – 3
A New Volume of “Harper” – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4
The Virginia Campaign – 5-7, 16-17
An Appeal – 6
Foreign News – 6-7
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch LVI-LVII – 7-9
No Ghost – 9
Interesting Items – 9-10
A Suggestion for Travellers by the Erie Railroad – 10
A Year’s Courtship – 13
Stainless Hildegarde – 13-15
The Beautiful Gate – 15
Mr. and Mrs. Popkins – 15-16
Sly – 15
The Defense of Allatoona – 18-20
Major Rodman and His Gun – 19
Over the Hill-Side – 20
The Case of Mons. D’Egville – 20

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The first excerpt below is continued from November 10 (reply #34) Stanton’s letter to Chase, referenced in the first paragraph, was written on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4275856/posts#34

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This excerpt is not a continuation. Mary Lincoln’s letter to Mercy Conkling was written on this date.

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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

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Edwin M. Stanton to Salmon P Chase, November 19, 1864 (“I am better now and again at work, but with feeble and broken health, that can only be restored by absolute rest from all labor and care.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/edwin-m-stanton-to-salmon-p-chase.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, November 19, 1864 (“So we were waked from the prima quies by loud nasal and otherwise discordant cries of: “Post number eight! Half-past twelve! All’s well!” etc., etc.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_21.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 19, 1864 (“By the kindness of Mrs. Elizabeth Celia Pye, I occupy a feather bed to-night. It is the first house I have been in for the last three months.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-november_32.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: November 19, 1864 (“all hands afraid of going to Charleston. Believe I shall try and escape on the journey, although in no condition to rough it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_16.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, November 19, 1864 (“We passed through Hillsboro at 10 a. m., and the town being deserted, many of the vacant houses were burned by our men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_5.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 19, 1864 (“The papers think that Grant is about to try again to force his way into Richmond, as soon as the weather will permit.”)

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

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: November 19, 1864 (“I could hear them cry, ‘Halt! Halt!’ and their guns went off in quick succession. Oh God, the time of trial has come!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-november-19.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #3
Lincoln memo to Gen. Rosecrans, #4
George Templeton Strong, #5
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #6

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To bad you can’t read that paper.

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What device are you using?

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

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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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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 George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, November 20, 1864 (“Every other officer in this army, except myself, who has been recommended for promotion for services in this campaign has been promoted.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-general-george-g-meade-to_5.html

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, November 20, 1864 (“We are I think waiting to see the issue of Sherman’s daring campaign in Georgia.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/09/colonel-rutherford-b-hayes-to-lucy-webb.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 20, 1864 (“Some of our men found two of our dead soldiers unburied, which don’t speak well for the Rebels, and is charged against them.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/08/captain-charles-wright-wills-november_24.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: Sunday, November 20, 1864 (“Our division is now in the rear guarding Kilpatrick’s train; the roads are very muddy; only succeed in getting ten miles to-day”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_66.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: November 20, 1864 (“Will again go to bed as I have done the last week, thinking every night would be the last at Camp Lawton.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_6.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, November 20, 1864 (“We are on short rations now and therefore have to forage a great deal. We also find enough forage for the horses and mules in the command.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_6.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Sunday, November 20, 1864 (“the seizure of our cruiser Florida in a neutral port (Brazil) will furnish a pretext for a quarrel with the United States by the maritime powers.”)

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

General Pierre G. T. Beauregard to General John Bell Hood, November 20, 1864 – 10 a.m. (“Push on active offensive immediately. Colonel Brent informs me first order for movement one of Jackson’s brigades to Wheeler has been suspended by you.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/general-pierre-g-t-beauregard-to_14.html

Varina Howell Davis to Mary Boykin Chesnut: November 20, 1864 (“Some people expect another attack upon Richmond shortly, but I think the avalanche will not slide until the spring”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/varina-howell-davis-to-mary-boykin.html

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: November 20, 1864 (“presently, more soldiers came by, and this ended the passing of Sherman’s army by my place, leaving me poorer by thirty thousand dollars than I was yesterday morning. And a much stronger Rebel!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-november-20.html

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Today’s posts:

George Templeton Strong, reply #10
Johnny Green, #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
Links to 10 items at Civil War Notebook, #13

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Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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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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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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Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes, Monday, November 21, 1864 (“Rode out to works on Front Royal Road. Review of Sixth Corps in a cold rain-storm; eight brigades — ten thousand [men].”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/09/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_36.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 21, 1864 (“Our cavalry had a little skirmish at Macon last evening and were driven back. I heard some cannonading, but don’t think it amounted to much.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-november_45.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: Monday, November 21, 1864 (“There is manhood here; there is fidelity around these camp fires, and how sad the fact that there are men in America who would be loath to acknowledge it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose_42.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: November 21, 1864 (“Decided rumors that Sherman has taken Atlanta and is marching toward Savannah, the heart of the Confederacy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_8.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Monday, November 21, 1864 (“We went into bivouac, to safeguard the train, since the rebels’ cavalry have appeared both in front and in the rear.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_32.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: November 21, 1864 (“An anonymous letter to Gov. Bonham states that Capt. Hugener and all his officers at Fort Sumter are drunkards or gamblers, and that the place is in great danger”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-november_93.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: November 21, 1864 (“A young adjutant lost his life by jumping out of a window at the head of his bed, about ten feet from the ground.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_86.html

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: November 21, 1864 (“All of his negroes are gone, save one man that had a wife here at my plantation. They are very strong Secesh”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-november-21.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #15
Johnny Green, #16
John Jackman, #17
Two Lincoln notes to citizens, #18
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #19