Harper’s Weekly – January 21, 1865

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | January 21, 1865

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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/4290055/posts

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The Dutch Gap Canal – 1, 8
Saint Martin and the Beggar – 2
State Sovereignty – 2
More Railway Murders – 2
The Signs at Savannah – 2
Union Feeling Toward the Rebels – 2-3
Gen. Sherman’s “Thousand Slaves” – 3
General Cialdini’s Speech – 3
The Doctors and the Soldiers – 3
Literary – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4, 14
Foreign News – 4
The Merry Andrew of the Bergen Tunnel – 4
The Union Army Entered Savannah on the 21st December, and on the 24th the First Number of the Loyal Georgian was Issued – 5
The Wilmington Expedition – 6-8
Loyal Savannah – 8, 11
Interesting Items – 8-9
A Wonderful Fat Man – 9
The Perplexities of a Somnambulist – 9-10
A Caution to Young Ladies Waiting for an Omnibus – 10
A Silent Parting – 12
Margaret Miller: A Story in Nine Chapters, Ch. IX – 12-13
Two Days with Mosby – 13-14
The Rebel Colonel Mosby – 14, 16
A Commissary Train Among the Mountains – 15
Mr. Gridley and His Sack of Flour – 16-17
The Sole Survivor of a Wreck Rescued – 17-18
Humors of the Day – 18

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Continued from January 18 (reply #30).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4290055/posts#30

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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Continued from January 15 (reply #9).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4290055/posts#9

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, January 21, 1865 (“There is, [Stanton] says, little or no loyalty in Savannah and the women are frenzied, senseless partisans.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/09/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-january_18.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Henry A. Cram, January 21, 1865 (Gen. Meade’s nomination as Major-General in the regular army is resisted in the U.S. Senate.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-general-george-g-meade-to-henry_24.html

Major-General William T. Sherman to Major-General George H. Thomas, January 21, 1865 (Sherman instructs Thomas to send cavalry as diversions and proceed with his main force to Tuscaloosa, Selma and Montgomery Alabama.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/04/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_87.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, January 21, 1865 (“The teams are going back and forth day and night, hauling provisions. The roads are so bad now at places that the teams get stuck in the mud.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_7.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 21, 1865 (“We have at last a letter from Gen. Hood, narrating the battle of Franklin, Tenn. He says he lost about 4500 men—enemy’s loss not stated.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_54.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: January 21, 1865 (“The city and country are full of rumours and evil surmising”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_35.html

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Today’s posts:

“Jefferson Davis, American,” reply #3
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #4
Johnny Green, #5
John Jackman, #6
George Templeton Strong, #7
Links to 6 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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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 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, January 22, 1865 (“It is reported that the Fourteenth and Twentieth Corps have crossed into South Carolina and are floundering in the mud bottoms of the Savannah river.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_8.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, January 22, 1865 (Another report from Washington that Meade’s nomination as Maj. Gen. in the regular army will be rejected.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-general-george-g-meade-to_26.html

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, January 22, 1865 (“I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got I have all the rank I want”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_3.html

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, January 22, 1865 (“One of our officers from Cumberland tells me he thinks we shall see very little more hard service during the war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/01/brigadier-general-rutherford-b-hayes-to_2.html

Francis Lieber to Senator Charles Sumner, January 22, 1865 (“I abhor this revenge on prisoners of war, because we should sink thereby to the level of the enemy’s dishonor.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/08/francis-lieber-to-senator-charles_12.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 22, 1865 (“The young men near the Secretary of War and the Assistant Secretary, say that both have resigned.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_66.html

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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: Monday, January 23, 1865 (“There was a smart brush in the House to-day between Brooks and Stevens, the cause of controversy General Butler”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/09/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-january_18.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, January 23, 1865 (“It is still raining, and our men have made a new landing within six miles of Pocotaligo.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_9.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 23, 1865 (“The enemy cannot take care of the negroes—and to feed them in idleness would produce a famine North and South.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_72.html

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

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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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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, January 24, 1865 (“President sent for me this evening. Found Stanton with him, having a dispatch from General Grant desiring him to request me to remove Commander Parker, the senior officer on the upper James.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/09/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-january_18.html

Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant to Congressman Elihu B. Washburne, January 24, 1865 (“four of the enemy’s gunboats started down the river, and one or two of them actually passed the obstructions. Providence seemed to be on our side. Our navy certainly was not.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/08/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_27.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, January 24, 1865 (“hope that we may be able to get away in a few days and move on to the front at Garden Corners, South Carolina.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_10.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 24, 1865 (“The Northern papers say Mr. Blair is authorized to offer an amnesty, including all persons, with the ‘Union as it was, the Constitution as it is’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_91.html

John T. L. Preston to Margaret Junkin Preston, January 24, 1865 (“Absolutely, there is nothing grand about here but General Lee, and nothing beautiful but the music at the Monumental Church.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/06/john-t-l-preston-to-margaret-junkin.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln reply to a Philadelphia delegation, reply #15
John Jackson, #16
George Templeton Strong, #17
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #18

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