Harper’s Weekly – February 4, 1865

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | February 4, 1865

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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: Monday, February 6, 1865 (“The earnest desire of the President to conciliate and effect peace was manifest, but there may be such a thing as so overdoing as to cause a distrust or adverse feeling.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/10/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-february.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 6, 1865 (“Sherman said he’d chance them for the railroad with what troops there are up. We took the road this morning.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/captain-charles-wright-wills-february-6.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: February 6, 1865 (“General Corse [has] orders to move across the country and form a junction with the corps now moving from Pocataligo.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/05/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-daniel-l_38.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, February 6, 1865 (“were all day in marching ten miles, the country being so very swampy. We had a great deal of corduroy to build”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_23.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 6, 1865 (“Now the South will soon be fired up again, perhaps with a new impulse and WAR will rage with greater fury than ever.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_7.html

General Robert E. Lee to Samuel Cooper, February 6, 1865 (“The enemy moved in strong force yesterday to Hatcher’s Run.” Battle ensued.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/general-robert-e-lee-to-samuel-cooper.html

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, February 6, 1865 (“This wild talk about the Federal Army and what it’s going to do is all nonsense. Coming here! Sherman! Why not say he’s going to Paramaribo?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-malvina-s-waring-february-6.html

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Tomorrow’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #17
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #18
“Lee,” #19
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #20
Johnny Green, #21
John Jackman, #22
George Templeton Strong, #23
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #24

[Hebrews 11:6]

Inquiring mind wants to know: Must I wait until the morning to read Tomorrow’s Posts?

Headed back to Greece?

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Capitola Surgery Center. I will be getting a new knee under general anesthesia when I would normally be posting tomorrow’s news. It’s ok if you want to sneak a peak. With any luck I will be back on schedule for Friday.

[Hebrews 11:6]

I am adding to your “luck” by requesting God’s grace.

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Continued from February 2 (reply #36).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4293226/posts#36

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

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

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

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, February 7, 1865 (“Strange how men in prominent positions will, for mere party, stoop to help the erring and the guilty. It is a species of moral treason.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/10/diary-of-gideon-welles-tuesday-february_13.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, February 7, 1865 (“The next day (yesterday) Warren attacked the enemy, and after being successful all day, he was towards evening checked and finally compelled to retrace his steps in great disorder.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/01/major-general-george-g-meade-to_30.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, February 7, 1865 (“But if I take it I am brought right into the Army of the Potomac, and I can’t bear to lose my Western boys, or the broad Savannahs in the South”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_5.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: February 7, 1865 (“Our regiment led the corps to-day. The 17th Corps strikes the railroad at Midway, three miles to our right, and the 20th to the left five miles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/02/captain-charles-wright-wills-february-7.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: February 7, 1865 {“We cross Black Water swamps and go into camp at Hickory Hill, making a distance of ten miles.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/05/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-daniel-l_60.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Tuesday, February 7, 1865 (“We marched out on the Augusta and Charleston railroad to burn the bridge over the Edisto river, but the pickets, on hearing our approach, for it was too dark to see anything, all hastened across the bridge and set fire to it themselves.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/11/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_24.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 7, 1865 (“Congress will soon be likely to vote a negro army, and their emancipation after the war—as Lee favors it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-february_32.html

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, February 7, 1865 (“Tis a pretty come to pass when $75 of Confederate currency is not the equivalent of an ordinary pair of Massachusetts made shoes!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-malvina-s-waring-february-7.html

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Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life, reply #29
Johnny Green, #30
John Jackman, #31
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #32
Lincoln notes, #33
Mary Chesnut, #34
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #35

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Thanks for the lift. Surgery was a success and I have begun to improve, though still not at peak Homer.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Well, at least we can no longer call you Hopalong Simpson.

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

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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