Posted on 02/04/2025 6:19:20 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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/4293226/posts
With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, February 4, 1865 (“In going the President acted from honest sincerity and without pretension. Perhaps this may have a good effect, and perhaps otherwise.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/10/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday_13.html
Edwin M. Stanton to Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant, February 4, 1865 – 12:20 p.m. (“The President desires me to repeat that nothing transpired or transpiring with the three gentlemen from Richmond is to cause any change, hindrance, or delay of your military plans or operations.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/edwin-m-stanton-to-major-general_7.html
Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 4, 1865 (“At the present moment, 8 P. M., the artillery on our lines is in full blast, clearly proving that at this moment there is no peace.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-general-george-g-meade-to_29.html
Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 4, 1865 (“the Rebels evacuated an impregnable position (if there is such a thing), and our brigade was saved thereby from making some more history, for which I am grateful.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/captain-charles-wright-wills-february-4.html
Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: February 4, 1865 (“In the evening we cross over into the Palmetto State and go into camp three miles from the river”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-daniel-l_21.html
Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, February 4, 1865 (“General Mower’s division lost several men here at the bridge yesterday morning about the time that we were crossing below.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_69.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 4, 1865 (“The great struggle will be in Virginia, south of Richmond, and both sides will gather up their forces for that event.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_70.html
The Confederate Senate to General Robert E. Lee, February 4, 1865 (Recommending putting Gen. Johnston in command of the Army of Tennessee.)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-confederate-senate-to-general.html
General Robert E. Lee to General Samuel Cooper, February 4, 1865 (“I received your telegram of the 1st inst. announcing my confirmation by the Senate as general-in-chief of the armies of the Confederate States.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/04/general-robert-e-lee-to-general-samuel.html
Today’s posts:
John G. Nicolay, reply #3
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #4
John Jackman, #5
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #6
Methinks that great day draweth nigh....
Continued from February 3 (reply #43).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4293226/posts#43
David Herbert Donald, Lincoln
This photograph of Lincoln was made when the burden of the presidency had taken its toll. President Lincoln visited Gardner's studio one Sunday in February 1865, the final year of the Civil War, accompanied by the American portraitist Matthew Wilson. Wilson had been commissioned to paint the president's portrait, but because Lincoln could spare so little time to pose, the artist needed recent photographs to work from. The pictures served their purpose, but the resulting painting- a traditional, formal, bust-length portrait in an oval format—is not particularly distinguished and hardly remembered today. Gardner's surprisingly candid photographs have proven more enduring, even though they were not originally intended to stand alone as works of art.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographs_of_Abraham_Lincoln
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 5, 1865 (“Only moved four miles to-day, and will probably lay here a few days as Sherman told Wood we were four days ahead of time”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/captain-charles-wright-wills-february-5.html
Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: February 5, 1865 (“The seventy thousand are now making a terrible stride in South Carolina, moving through the swamps, the favorite haunts of the slave hunter and his blood hounds.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/05/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-daniel-l_41.html
Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, February 5, 1865 (“The boys brought in smoked bacon by the wagon load, also great quantities of corn meal, sweet potatoes, honey and other good things.”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_88.html
Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 5, 1865 (“This fruitless mission, I apprehend, will be fraught with evil, unless the career of Sherman be checked”)
https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_9.html
Today’s posts:
“Lincoln,” reply #9
Lincoln letter to Congress, #10
Lincoln photo, #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
Johnny Green, #13
Mary B. Chesnut, #14
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #15
Continued from February 3 (reply #42).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4293226/posts#42
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
Continued from January 21 (reply #3).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4291545/posts#3
William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American
Continued from January 13 (reply #31).
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4288550/posts#31
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes
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