Harper’s Weekly – December 24, 1864

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | December 24, 1864

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

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Continued from December 25 (reply #13)

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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, December 26, 1864 (“Three hundred guns were fired by order of the Secretary of War on Vermont Avenue on account of the capture of Savannah.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/07/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-december.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, December 26, 1864 (“The military are all agog at the good news from Sherman, but everybody here is as ignorant as I am of Hood’s movements”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_27.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, December 26, 1864 (“Governor Stone of Iowa arrived in camp today . . . He came to issue commissions to the officers of veteran regiments”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_12.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 26, 1864 (“The Georgians in Lee’s army are more or less demoralized, and a reward of a sixty days’ furlough is given for shooting any deserter from our ranks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_34.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: December 26, 1864 (“The sad Christmas has passed away.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_4.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: December 26, 1864 (Good news, but untrue, from Wilmington.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_7.html

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Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #20
Lincoln note to Sherman, #21
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #22
John Jackman, #23
George Templeton Strong, #24
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #25
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #26

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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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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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

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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, December 27, 1864 (“I am opposed to the whole thing, and regret that our Minister should have pressed our naval officers to take any part in the fight with the Japanese.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-december.html

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Major-General William T. Sherman, December 27, 1864 (“Without waiting further directions, then, you may make preparations to start on your northern expedition without delay.”) Reply to WTS 1225

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_10.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Tuesday, December 27, 1864 (“Quite decent under foot; hut about done; shall move into it to-morrow night.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_99.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, December 27, 1864 (“The Fourteenth Army Corps was reviewed at 9 a. m. by General Sherman. The troops looked fine.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_13.html

Charles Eliot Norton to Aubrey Thomas de Vere, December 27, 1864 (“I have little doubt that his course and his character will both be estimated more highly in history than they are, in the main, by his contemporaries”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/07/charles-eliot-norton-to-aubrey-thomas.html

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Today’s posts:

Elisha Hunt Rhodes, reply #28
John Jackman, #29
George Templeton Strong, #30
Mary B. Chesnut, #31
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #32

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I sorely miss Sgt. John Ransom already, although I suppose I must not begrudge him achieving finally the freedom and repatriation he so earnestly desired.

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Continued from December 25 (reply #16).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Wednesday, December 28, 1864 (“The troops are said to have disembarked above Fort Fisher, to have taken some earthworks and prisoners, and then to have reëmbarked.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-wednesday_10.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Wednesday, December 28, 1864 (“Tenth Vermont worked on breastworks this forenoon; finished my cabin today”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_10.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, December 28, 1864 (“Nearly all the citizens inside of our lines have taken the oath, swearing that they will not aid the Southern Confederacy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_14.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 28, 1864 (“It is still believed that Gen. Lee is to be generalissimo, and most people rejoice at it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-december_5.html

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Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #35
George Templeton Strong, #36
John Jackman, #37
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #38

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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