Harper’s Weekly – January 28, 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/4291545/posts

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The Hon. William Dennison – 1-2
General H.W. Slocum – 1-2
The “Dictator” – 1
Letters from Sherman’s Army – 2
General Butler – 2
The Whirring of Doves – 3
A Begging Crœsus – 3
The Pope’s Bull – 3
Sherman’s Freedmen – 3
The Fall of Fort Fisher – 3-4
Edward Everett – 4
Skating – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
Reaction – 5
‘Tween Decks After Action – News from Home – 6
The Holidays at Savannah – 7-9
Two – 9
Hannah Gneldt’s Door-Step – 9
“A Little Box for you, Sir” – 9-10
The Grand Duke’s New Suit – 10-11
Interesting Items – 11
Now – 11
The Ghosts of Bolden Tower – 11, 13
The Wilmington Expedition Again – 12, 19
Over the Stones – 13
A Black Affair – 13-14
Edward Everett – 15-16
The Howlett House Battery – 16, 19
The Chicago Water-Works – 16, 18
Paris Fashions for January – 17, 19
Humors of the Day – 19

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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: Saturday, January 28, 1865 (“Mr. Fox has gone with General Grant to Fort Fisher.”)

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

Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 28, 1865 - 6 p.m. (“The campaign commences Monday. It is yet cold; about an inch of ice forms every night, and sleeping out without tents is not a fair sample of paradise.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/01/captain-charles-wright-wills-january-28.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, January 28, 1865 (“Our company received orders to move on to the front tomorrow. The weather is quite pleasant.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_14.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 28, 1865 (“Can there be war brewing between the United States and England or France? We shall know all soon.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_25.html

[tcox4575]

Thank you for continuing to post these archives. Reading them not only provides a window into the direct history of that time, it is a reminder - to me at least - of how relatively illiterate our culture has become. Reading the news of 200 years ago is humbling and almost embarrassing.

[RWGinger]

I am enjoying and learning so much.
In addition to learning in “real time” I love seeing the ads and cartoons.
Thank you

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Continued from January 11 (reply #18).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4288550/posts#18

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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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Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 29, 1865 (“Later in the p. m. half a dozen Johnnies arose from the mud and weeds and though they were across the river, surrendered to us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/01/captain-charles-wright-wills-january-29.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, January 29, 1865 (“Our company left camp in the old fort at 10 o’clock and reached the brigade headquarters at Garden Corners about noon.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_15.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 29, 1865 (“To-day at 10 A. M. three commissioners start for Washington on a mission of peace, which may be possibly attained. They are Vice-President Stephens, Senator R. M. T. Hunter, and James [sic] A. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of War”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_74.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: Sunday, January 29, 1865 (“Every thing looks so dark without that our only comfort is in looking to God for His blessing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/04/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_11.html

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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: Monday, January 30, 1865 (“Great talk and many rumors from all quarters of peace.”)

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

Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 30, 1865 (“Came through Pocataligo and have made 14 miles to-day. Quite a place, but there is not even a clearing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/01/captain-charles-wright-wills-january-30.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, January 30, 1865 (“The report is that we are now ready to make the grand raid through South Carolina.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_28.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 30, 1865 (“Some of our sensible men have strong hopes of peace immediately, on terms of alliance against European powers, and commercial advantages to the United States.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_99.html

Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge: January 30, 1865 (“I have felt a strong desire today that my captured boys might come back.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/07/diary-of-dolly-lunt-burge-january-30.html

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Continued from January 15 (reply #8).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4290055/posts#8

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from January 6 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4287319/posts#39

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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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

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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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 31, 1865 (“It is a step towards the reëstablishment of the Union in its integrity, yet it will be a shock to the framework of Southern society.”)

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

Congressman James M. Ashley to Abraham Lincoln, January 31, 1865 (“The report is in circulation in the House that Peace Commissioners are on their way or in the city, and [it] is being used against us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/congressman-james-m-ashley-to-abraham.html

Abraham Lincoln to Congressman James M. Ashley, January 31, 1865 (“So far as I know there are no Peace Commissioners in the city or likely to be in it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/abraham-lincoln-to-congressman-james-m.html

13th Amendment to the United States Constitution

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/13th-amendment-to-united-states.html

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fessenden Morse: January 31, 1865 (“Since my last letter we have pushed farther into this miserable, rebellious State of South Carolina.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/09/lieutenant-colonel-charles-fessenden_17.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 31, 1865 (“Hear that the 17th Corps has crossed the Combahee.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/01/captain-charles-wright-wills-january-31.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, January 31, 1865 (“The people are poor, the women and children being left destitute, as the men have all gone off to the war.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_45.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: January 31, 1865 (“The ‘peace commissioners’ remained Sunday night at Petersburg, and proceeded on their way yesterday morning. As they passed our lines, our troops cheered them very heartily”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-january_26.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #13
“Team of Rivals,” #14
John G. Nicolay, #15
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #16
John Jackman, #17
George Templeton Strong, #18
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #19