Harper’s Weekly – April 8, 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/4308140/posts

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The Weight of the Federal Armies – 1-2
Our Relations with England – 2-3
Amnesty – 3
New York Legislation – 3
A South Carolina Hero – 3-4
A Full Explanation – 4
An Appalling Fact – 4
Dr. Livingston’s Son – 4
Literary – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
Foreign News – 5
The Hygiene of New York City – 5
Gen. Sherman’s Army – 6-8
Rescue of the Crew on the “Enterprise” – 8
Ruins of the Norfolk Navy-Yard – 8-10
Waiting – 10
My Boat – 10-11
A Grave Disturbance – 11-12
Interesting Items – 12
Charge of Weaver’s Brigade Across the Salkehatchie, South Carolina – 13
The Burning of Columbia, South Carolina, February 17, 1865 – 14
The Homes of the Poor – 15
Kate – 15-17
Humors of the Day – 17
Scenes in the Recent Disastrous Freshets – 18-19
The War in South America – 20-21

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Continued from April 7 (reply #71).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4308140/posts?q=1&;page=51#71

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from April 7 (reply #72).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4308140/posts?q=1&;page=51#72

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from April 7 (reply #73).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4308140/posts?q=1&;page=51#73

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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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Continued from April 3 (reply #36)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4308140/posts#36

Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

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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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Continued from April 5 (reply #56).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4308140/posts?q=1&;page=51#56

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln

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Continued from April 6 (reply #67).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4308140/posts?q=1&;page=51#67

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals

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

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Lieutenant-General Ulysses S. Grant to Edwin M. Stanton, April 8, 1865 – 12 p.m. (“I feel very confident of receiving the surrender of Lee and what remains of his army to-morrow.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/02/lieutenant-general-ulysses-s-grant-to_6.html

Major General William T. Sherman to Senator John Sherman, April 8, 1865 (“The slaves are free, but are not yet voters. The time has not yet come. Such a course will alienate a strength your party cannot spare.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/major-general-william-t-sherman-to_6.html

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, April 8, 1865 (“The clique of showy shams in the Army of the Potomac are represented by Warren.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/05/brigadier-general-rutherford-b-hayes-to_11.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, April 8, 1865 (“Towards sundown we could hear rapid artillery from direction of Appomattox Station, which made us anxious; for we knew it was Sheridan, and could not know the result.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_21.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, April 8, 1865 (“The boys are all happy, thinking that this will be our last campaign.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_60.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 8, 1865 (“Efforts by Judge Campbell, Jos. R. Anderson, N. P. Tyler, G. A. Myers and others, are being made to assemble a convention which shall withdraw Virginia from the Confederacy.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-8.html

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, April 8, 1865 (“I am a miserable, weak thing, with very little moral strength and very much body (all aching). I wish my spirit didn’t have to be pent up in this body.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/10/diary-of-malvina-s-waring-april-8-1865.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #3
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #4
“Lee,” #5
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #6
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #7
Johnny Green, #8
“Lincoln,” #9
“Team of Rivals,” #10
George Templeton Strong, #11

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

Continued from April 6 (reply #65)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4308140/posts?q=1&;page=51#65

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Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from April 8 (reply #3).

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Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from April 8 (reply #4).

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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from April 8 (reply #5).

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

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