Harper’s Weekly – March 25, 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/4305076/posts

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The Triumph in New York – 1, 5-7, 13
Hon. Hugh McCullough, Secretary of the Treasury – 1-2
The Dark Iconoclast – 1
The Military Situation – 1, 3
The Last Mask Gone – 3
Sherman – 3
Death on the Rail – 3
Sherman’s Pen – 3
Sheridan – 3
Cowell Lending a Hand – 3-4
A Tragical Delusion – 4
A Photograph from Ancient Greece – 4
For the Soldiers – A Card – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5, 14
Foreign News – 5
Hon. James Harlan, Secretary of the Interior – 8
Correspondence: With Gen. Sherman in the Carolinas – 8-10
Secrets – 10
Recollection – 10
Wrecked – 10-11
What the Cyclone Did at Masulipatam – 11-12
Humors of the Day – 12
March Musings – 15
In the Untrodden Ways – 15-17
Interesting Items – 17
Before Petersburg – 18-19
Cardinal Wiseman – 19-20
Paris Fashions for March – 20-21

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Continued from March 4 (reply #4)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4301991/posts#4

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from March 3 (reply #36).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4300333/posts#36

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from March 24 (reply #37).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4305076/posts#37

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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Continued from March 23 (reply #32).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4305076/posts#32

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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Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, March 25, 1865 — 8:30 a.m. (“Robert just now tells there was a little rumpus up the line this morning, ending about where it began.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/abraham-lincoln-to-edwin-m-stanton.html

Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton, March 25, 1865 – 1:30 p.m. (“The enemy attacked my front this morning at about 4.30 with three divisions, under command of General Gordon.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_19.html

Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton, March 25, 1865 – Received 5 p.m. (“I am here within five miles of the scene of this morning’s action. I have nothing to add to what General Meade reports, except that I have seen the prisoners myself”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/abraham-lincoln-to-edwin-m-stanton_94.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Abraham Lincoln, March 25, 1865 – 8 p.m. (“The rebel rooster looks a little the worse, as he could not hold the fence.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/edwin-m-stanton-to-abraham-lincoln_88.html

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, March 25, 1865 (“General Crook has been exchanged and given a command under Grant before Richmond.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/04/brigadier-general-rutherford-b-hayes-to_3.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, March 25, 1865 (“General Parke had ordered that the works should be retaken, if it cost every man in the Corps”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to.html

Major Charles Wright Wills: March 25, 1865 (“We were two days coming back from Bentonville. Have a nice camp ground and will enjoy ourselves, I think.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/07/captain-charles-wright-wills-march-25.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, March 25, 1865 (“We remained in camp all day. Large foraging parties were sent out to get feed for the mules and horses.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_13.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 25, 1865 (“A single retrograde movement by Sherman, or even a delay in advancing, would snatch some of his laurels away, and enable Lee to obtain supplies.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-25.html

General Robert E. Lee to John C. Breckinridge, March 25, 1865 (“it was found that the inclosed works in rear, commanding enemy’s main line, could only be taken at great sacrifice, and troops were withdrawn to original position.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/10/general-robert-e-lee-to-john-c_23.html

Lieutenant-General James Longstreet to Lieutenant-Colonel Walter H. Taylor, March 25, 1865 (“Another growing evil seems to trouble us now in the shape of applications to raise negro companies, regiments, brigades, &c.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/06/lieutenant-general-james-longstreet-to_6672.html

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, March 25, 1865 (“Heaven grant I may not be ill in Richmond! At this particular epoch, it is the place for everything else, but no place to be sick in.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/08/diary-of-malvina-s-waring-march-25-1865.html

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Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #3
“Grant,” #4
“Team of Rivals,” #5
“Lee,” #6
George Templeton Strong, #7
Links to 12 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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Continued from March 24 (reply #38).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4305076/posts#38

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from March 25 (reply #6).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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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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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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Continued from March 25 (reply #5).

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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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, March 26, 1865 (“Mrs. Lincoln spoke very handsomely of you and referred in feeling terms to our sad bereavement.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/major-general-george-g-meade-to_15.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to his Daughter, March 26, 1865 (“There used to be several families on the island, but the commandant sent them all away to New Orleans.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_9.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, March 26, 1865 (“On the whole, he is such a mixture of all sorts, as only America brings forth. He is as much like a highly intellectual and benevolent Satyr as anything I can think of.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_2.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, March 26, 1865 (“The Eleventh Iowa was sent out with a foraging train to get corn and fodder for the mules and horses of our brigade.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_31.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: March 26, 1865 (“After all, I fear Lee’s attempt on the enemy’s lines yesterday was a failure. We were compelled to relinquish the fort or battery we had taken, with all the guns we had captured.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/10/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-march-26.html

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Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #10
“Lee,” #11
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #12
Gen. Sherman letter to Mrs. Sherman, #13
“Team of Rivals,” #14
John G. Nicolay, #15
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #16

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Continued from March 26 (reply #11).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Battle Maps of the Civil War: The Western Theater, American Battlefield Trust

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Continued from March 26 (reply #14).

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals