Harper’s Weekly – December 31, 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/4286258/posts

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Christmas Morning – 1
Christmas – 2
General Thomas – 2
The United States and England – 2
General Dix’s Order – 2-3
Arming the Slaves – 3
Earl Russell’s Letter – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
A Christmas Ballad – 4
General Warren’s Raid – 5-8
Capture of the “Armstrong – 8
Margaret Miller: A Story in Nine Chapters, Ch. IV-V – 8-10
Humors of the Day – 10
The Christmas Solo – 10, 12
The Union Christmas Dinner – 11
Mrs. Buswell’s Christmas, by Harriet E. Prescott – 12-13
My Christmas – 13
The Army of the Cumberland – 13-15
Paris Fashions for December – 14, 16
Porter’s Fleet Leaving Fortress Monroe – 17
A Hint to Young Ladies – 20

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Continued from December 14 (reply #27).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4283626/posts#27

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, December 31, 1864 (Another Wilmington campaign is being organized. No leaks this time.)

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

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, December 31, 1864 (“Not a waver, doubt, or hesitation when I order, and men march to certain death without a murmur if I call on them, because they know I value their lives as much as my own.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/major-general-william-t-sherman-to.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, December 31, 1864 (“I shudder when I think how many have been killed out of our little band, yet I am spared perhaps for some good purpose” Abbott added a footnote many years later on what that “good purpose” might have been.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/08/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_19.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, December 31, 1864 (“The Eleventh Iowa has done its part and suffered severely, Company E alone having lost seven men by bullet in the siege of Atlanta”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_17.html

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: December 31, 1864 (“The inclosure is so large and high it cannot be seen from the outside, making it safe from the shots of the guerillas, scouts, and bushwhackers.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/diary-of-corporal-charles-h-lynch.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 31, 1864 (“His army diminishes, rather than increases, under the manipulations of the Bureau of Conscription. It is a dark and dreary hour, when Lee is so despondent!”)

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

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Saturday Night, December 31, 1864 (“I am afraid of eighteen sixty-five, and have felt a vague dread of it for several years past.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-sarah-morgan-saturday-night.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today’s posts:

“Lee,” reply #3
Gen. Sherman letter to his father-in-law, #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
George Templeton Strong, #6
Lincoln note to Sec. Stanton, #7
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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The photo with today’s excerpt identifies Rhodes as a Colonel. As of this date he is still a Captain – HJS.

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, January 1, 1865 (“The years that I have been here have been oppressive, wearisome, and exhaustive, but I have labored willingly”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-january-1.html

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, January 1, 1865 (“We reached [Cumberland MD] last night. We shall build winter quarters and soon settle down.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/brigadier-general-rutherford-b-hayes-to_48.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, January 1, 1865 (“I am mortified to learn here that Hood has succeeded with the remnant of his army in crossing the Tennessee upon the shoals”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_29.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John S. Morgan, Sunday, January 1, 1865 (“A nice enough day, did not go to church. worked part of the day on Pay rolls.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/10/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-s-morgan_9.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, January 1, 1865 (“We did not have to work on the fortifications today, and as the weather was cloudy and cool we remained close to our ‘ranches.’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_19.html

William Cullen Bryant to the Soldiers of the Union Army, January 1, 1865 (“Soldiers! This is your work! These are your heroic achievements; for these a grateful country gives you its thanks.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/11/william-cullen-bryant-to-soldiers-of.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: Sunday, January 1, 1865 (“The new year begins with the new rumor that Gen. Hood has turned upon Gen. Thomas and beaten him. This is believed by many.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-sunday_31.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: January 1865 (“All the prisoners in Northern prisons, it seems, will have to stay until the end of the war, as Grant would rather feed than fight us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/04/diary-of-private-louis-leon-january-1865.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: January 1, 1865 (“Our children came over from Union Hill yesterday, to take their dinner from the contents of the captured box”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_49.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #10
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #11
Johnny Green, #12
John Jackman, #13
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Upon further review, reply #10 and the photo in reply #11 are a day early. The White House reception and the gathering of officers at Capt. Rhodes’s headquarters took place on January 2. We regret the error - HJS.

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You got your single 2025 error out of the way early, Homer. I’m sticking around until, say, April or May at least.

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

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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