Harper’s Weekly – March 4, 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/4300333/posts

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The War in the Carolinas – 1, 6-9, 11, 15-16
The Old Soldier’s Reward – 2
Sherman’s True Victory – 2
Charleston – 2
Office-Holding – 2-3
“Fill Up the Army” – 3
The Sea-Island Order – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3
Foreign News – 3
Interesting Items – 3-4
Humors of the Day – 4
Camp Ford, Texas – 5, 15
At a Venture – 9-10
The Poor Woman – 10
Asleep – 10
“Who Did It?” – 12-13
Ordeal by Touch – 13
In the Ring – 13-14
Miss Mary Harris – 14-15
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson – 15, 17
King’s County Court-House – 15, 18
Warranted Well Broken-In” – 17
The Animated Egg – 17

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

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Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from February 17 (reply #25).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4296702/posts#25

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Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from February 21 (reply #19).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4298489/posts#19

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

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Continued from March 3 (reply #37).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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

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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 4, 1865 (“There are, however, no indications of an immediate evacuation either of Petersburg or Richmond, and the great fight may yet be fought out in this vicinity.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/major-general-george-g-meade-to_10.html

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to William Henry Smith, March 4, 1865 (“The kidnapping of our two generals and the state of things growing out of Sheridan’s absence with all the mounted men of this region makes it imperative that I should for the present stay where I am.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/headquarters-first-infantry-division.html

Major Charles Wright Wills: March 4, 1865 (“A thousand mounted men are to start from here to-morrow (from our corps, and it is said the same number from each corps) for—somewhere—rumor says, to release 8,000 of our prisoners at Florence.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/05/captain-charles-wright-wills-march-4.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, March 4, 1865 (“The rebel skirmishers are just across the river and our skirmishers are keeping up a lively fusillade.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_5.html

Diary of Corydon E. Fuller: Saturday, March 4, 1865 (“just as Mr. Lincoln arose to read his inaugural the sun burst through the clouds and shone full upon him and the company around him”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/diary-of-corydon-e-fuller-saturday.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 4, 1865 (“Sheridan advanced to Scottsville; and is no doubt still advancing. Lynchburg is rendered unsafe”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/09/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-4.html

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, March 4, 1865 (“They are all safe—thank God, my dear ones. Johnny came through without a scratch, and so did my new Steinway.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/05/diary-of-malvina-s-waring-march-4-1865.html

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Today’s posts:

Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, reply #3
“Never Call Retreat,” #4
“Team of Rivals,” #5
“Lincoln,” #6
“Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” #7
“Lee,” #8
George Templeton Strong, #9
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #10

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A gruesome woman scorned murder story. Makes one wonder if the older man left woman after getting what he wanted.

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Interesting to see oil start ups seeking investors. Seeing the birth of a truly transformative industry. I will keep my powder dry until I see a man by the name of Rockefeller associated with the start up.

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Continued from March 4 (reply #6).

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David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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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

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Continued from February 2 (reply #39).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4293226/posts#39

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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

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