Harper’s Weekly – April 15, 1865

Harper's Weekly archives ^ | April 15, 1865

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See the link to Harper’s Weekly Archives at the very top of the thread. I get the magazine in the original format there and then do a lot of screen shooting, cutting, reassembling, and scanning to get the images I post.

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Bookmark.

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Thanks. I was hoping for an easy way to do it.

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Continued from April 15 (reply #4).

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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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 9 (reply #24)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4309654/posts#24

William J. Cooper, Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, April 16, 1865 (“President Johnson is not disposed to treat treason lightly, and the chief Rebels he would punish with exemplary severity.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-april-16.html

Senator James W. Grimes to Elizabeth Nealley Grimes, April 16, 1865 (“I am full of forebodings about Johnson. He is loyal enough, but he is a man of low instincts, vindictive, violent, and of bad habits.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/senator-james-w-grimes-to-elizabeth_12.html

Major-General George G. Meade’s General Orders No. 15, April 16, 1865 (Announcing the assassination of Abraham Lincoln)

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

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 16, 1865 (“I cannot imagine the motives of the perpetrators of these foul deeds, or what they expect to gain. The whole affair is a mystery.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/major-general-george-g-meade-to_23.html

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, April 16, 1865 (“My mountain expedition is given up. If I go at all from here, it will be directly up the valleys to occupy Staunton.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/05/brigadier-general-rutherford-b-hayes-to_44.html

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, April 16, 1865 (“I felt a sinking of heart hardly equalled by that which oppressed us all when the defeat of our army at Manassas almost crushed the Nation.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/05/brigadier-general-rutherford-b-hayes-to_3.html

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Sophia Birchard Hayes, Sunday, April 16, 1865 (“Mr. Lincoln’s fame is safe. He is the “Darling of History” evermore.”)

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

Major Charles Wright Wills: April 16, 1865 (“Everybody thinks Johnston will accept and many are offering to bet their all that we will be mustered out by July 4th, 1865.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/07/captain-charles-wright-wills-april-16.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: April 16, 1865 (“Tonight, for the first time since we crossed the Ocmulgee river, November 19th, 1864, the Seventh Regiment is all together in camp.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/08/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-daniel-l_91.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Sunday, April 16, 1865 (“This P. M Genl Canby sends around a circular that he has official notice that Genl Lee has surrendered his entire army to Grant.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-john-s-morgan.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, April 16, 1865 (“All is quiet in the front and both armies are resting under a flag of truce.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_6.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: Sunday Night, April 16, 1865 (“General Lee has returned. He came unattended, save by his staff — came without notice, and without parade”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire.html

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Today’s posts:

“Team of Rivals,” reply #24
George Templeton Strong, #25
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #26
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #27
Links to 12 items at Civil War Notebook, #28

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Continued from April 12 (reply #50).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4309654/posts#50

Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat

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Continued from April 2 (reply #21).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4308140/posts#21

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

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

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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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Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier, Edited by A.D. Kirwan

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Andrew Johnson’s Address Upon Assuming the Office of President of the United States April 17, 1865

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/09/andrew-johnsons-address-upon-assuming.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Monday, April 17, 1865 (“Secretary Seward and his son continue in a low condition, and Mr. Fred Seward’s life is precarious.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-monday-april-17.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, April 17, 1865 (“I keep finding myself boiling and fuming over the personal neglect of General Meade and the totally undeserved prominence given to Sheridan.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_23.html

Major Charles Wright Wills: April 17, 1865 (“The army is crazy for vengenance. If we make another campaign it will be an awful one.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/07/captain-charles-wright-wills-april-17.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant Daniel L. Ambrose: April 17, 1865 (“This morning Sherman’s great army bow their heads in mournful silence over the startling news of the assassination.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/08/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-daniel-l_57.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Monday, April 17, 1865 (“at 12. m. a salute of 200 guns fired by order of Genl Canby in honor of the surrender of Genls Lee to Grant & Genl Jonston to Sherman”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-john-s-morgan_15.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, April 17, 1865 (“Charles Correll of our company was put under arrest for saying that the president should have been shot three years ago.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/02/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_28.html

John H. Reagan, April 17, 1865 (Confederate Postmaster-General Reagan’s document intended to suspend hostilities.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/john-h-reagan-april-17-1865_26.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 17, 1865 (“President Lincoln was killed by Booth (Jno. Wilkes), an actor. I suppose his purpose is to live in history as the slayer of a tyrant”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/03/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-17.html

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today’s posts:

“Never Call Retreat,” reply #30
“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” #31
John G. Nicolay, #32
George Templeton Strong, #33
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #34
Johnny Green, #35
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #36

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Continued from April 17 (reply #31).

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

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

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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