Harper’s Weekly – December 10, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | December 10, 1864

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I chopped off the last line of the paragraph on reply #15.

Continued from December 7 (reply #28)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4282220/posts#28

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Continued from December 9 (reply #40).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4282220/posts#40

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

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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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Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, December 13, 1864 – 11:50 p.m. (“To-day, at 5 p.m., General Hazen’s division of the Fifteenth Corps carried Fort McAllister by assault, capturing its entire garrison and stores.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_11.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, December 13, 1864 (It isn’t a security breach to tell Mrs. Lyman that VI Corps has returned to Petersburg.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_14.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, December 13, 1864 (“I anticipate a weakly manned part of the line will be found, easily broken, and then, as the enemy is disheartened, goodbye, Johnny!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_13.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: December 13, 1864 (“we hear to our right a sullen roar, a desperate crash, a whoop, and all is over; and soon we are told that Fort McAllister has fallen”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-daniel-l_31.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: December 13, 1864 (Ransom and the Buck brothers jumped from a train to escape and are in the woods near Savannah.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/11/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_12.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, December 13, 1864 (“Our cracker line is open once more and there is great cheering in camp over the news”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_75.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Sunday, December 13, 1864 (“Rumors of successes on the part of Sherman near Savannah are still in circulation.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-sunday_58.html

General Robert E. Lee to Brigadier General G. W. Custis Lee, December 13, 1864 (“The weather was wretched, and I fear our men and animals suffered much. The enemy reached their camps last night and our men are coming in this morning.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/02/general-robert-e-lee-to-brigadier_19.html

General Braxton Bragg to Colonel John B. Sale, December 13, 1864 (“I go to Charleston to-morrow to see General Beauregard, at his request. He has assigned me to duty.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/general-braxton-bragg-to-colonel-john-b_5.html

[Hebrews 11:6]

Getting my hopes up for the loquacious and legsore Sergeant Ransom.

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He’s so close to the Union lines he can probably taste it.

If he gets caught again and sent back to POW camp he could be the model for Steve McQueen’s role in The Great Escape.

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Continued from December 7 (reply #29).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4282220/posts#29

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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Continued from November 19 (reply #3, second excerpt). Judge Taft’s diary entry beginning with “Here is the carriage of Mrs. Lincoln” was written on this date.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4279390/posts#3

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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Major-General John A. Dix: General Orders, No. 97, December 14, 1864 (Regarding the release by the Canadian authorities of the St. Alban’s raiders.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/major-general-john-dix-general-orders.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, December 14, 1864 (“in the morning you could only see what seemed a field full of dead bodies, each covered with a rubber blanket and encased with ice.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_15.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, December 14, 1864 (“Has been quite warm and comfortable all day; dull in camp, and no news from Generals Sherman or Thomas”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_84.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: December 14, 1864 (“Tell the boys they had better leave me with the friendly blacks and go ahead to our lines, but they won’t.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/11/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_27.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, December 14, 1864 (“The capture of Fort McAllister gives us our first communication with the North since the telegraph wires were cut at Marietta, Georgia”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/09/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing_30.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 14, 1864 (“The bill to employ 40,000 negroes, as recommended by the President, for army purposes, though not avowedly to fight, has passed one House of Congress.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_60.html

General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, December 14, 1864 (“I do not know what may be General Grant’s next move; his last against the Weldon Railroad and our right flank failed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/03/general-robert-e-lee-to-jefferson-davis_27.html

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Today’s posts:

“Lee,” reply #27
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #28
“Team of Rivals,” #29
George Templeton Strong, #30
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #31

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

Continued from December 6 (reply #20).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4282220/posts#20

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

Continued from November 30 (reply #26)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4280960/posts#26

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from December 10 (reply #3).

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from December 12 (reply #21)

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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Continued from reply #34.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from December 6 (reply #21)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4282220/posts#21

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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: Thursday, December 15, 1864 (“Chase’s appointment gives satisfaction to Senator Sumner and a few others; but there is general disappointment.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General John A. Dix, December 15, 1864 (“the President does not approve that part of your Order which instructs “all military commanders on the frontier” in certain cases therein specified to cross the boundary between the United States and Canada”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/edwin-m-staonton-to-major-general-john.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: December 15, 1864 (“Our ad Division charged and took Fort McAlister, at sunset, the 13th—19 guns and 300 prisoners; lost 92 men killed and wounded. We will have Savannah, sure.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/12/captain-charles-wright-wills-december_48.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Thursday, December 15, 1864 (“am on duty in the fort; have a guard of one Sergeant, three Corporals and thirty-six men; duty easy”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_87.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: December 15, 1864 (The adventures of Sgt. Ransom and the Bucks as they try to make their way to Union lines.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/12/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom.html

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, December 15, 1864 (“The First Division of the Fifteenth Corps advanced their skirmish line this morning toward the rebels’ post south of Savannah.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-corporal-alexander-g-downing.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 15, 1864 (“It is said the enemy have captured Fort McAlister, Savannah Harbor.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_4.html

General Braxton Bragg to Colonel John B. Sale, December 15, 1864 (“Sherman has opened communication with his new base by the Ogeechee. The means to meet him do not exceed one-half the estimate in yours of the 7th instant.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/general-braxton-bragg-to-colonel-john-b_23.html

Lieutenant-General William J. Hardee to Jefferson Davis, December 15, 1864 (“Unless assured that force sufficient to keep open my communications can be sent me, I shall be compelled to evacuate Savannah.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/lieutenant-general-william-j-hardee-to.html