Harper’s Weekly – April 22, 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 25, 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/4311134/posts

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The Final Victory – 1-2, 6-7, 10-11, 15-16
Palm Sunday – 2-3
What Next? – 3
Grant – 3
Robert E. Lee – 3-4
Our Foreign Friends – 4
Abraham Lincoln – 4
The Last Official Act of Governor Yates – 4
The Cornell University – 4
Harper’s Weekly – 4
The Telegraph and the Tree – 4
Domestic Intelligence – 4-5
A Man Knows a Man – 5
Foreign News – 5
A Tribute to Father – 8
Tracking – 8-9
The Sea-King’s Daughter – 9
Disagreeable Girls – 9
Interesting Items – 9-10
“When My Ship Comes Home from Sea” – 12
Tid’s Old Reg Rag of a Shawl – 12-14
The Omens – 14
Humors of the Day – 14
The City of Richmond, Virginia – 17

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Continued from April 18 (reply #38).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4311134/posts#38

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

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

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, April 22, 1865 (“I learned that General Grant left in person to go to General Sherman instead of sending written orders. This was sensible, and will insure the work to be well and satisfactorily done.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-april_27.html

General Orders No. 1. (“Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck assumes command of the military division which embraces the Department of Virginia, the Army of the Potomac, and such parts of North Carolina as may not be occupied by the command of Major-General Sherman.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2013/09/general-orders-no-1.html

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Edwin M. Stanton, April 22, 1865 – Received 12:10 p.m (“It is stated here by respectable parties that the amount of specie taken South by Jeff. Davis and his partisans is very large”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/major-general-henry-w-halleck-to-edwin.html

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, April 22, 1865 – 2:30 p.m. (“His action is disapproved, and he is ordered to resume hostilities immediately. But his order to Stoneman will allow Davis to escape with his plunder.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/01/edwin-m-stanton-to-major-general-henry.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Henry A. Cram, April 22, 1865 (“I am at present very much demoralized by a recent order which places me and my army under the command of General Halleck”)

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

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Saturday, April 22, 1865 (“It is talked that this is about the only place on the river the jonnies could bring guns to bear on transports & is to be fortified & held by a garrison”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-john-s-morgan_20.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Saturday, April 22, 1865 (“Our camp looked so fine that the staff artist of Harper’s Weekly took a picture of it for the paper.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g.html

Diary of Sarah Morgan: Saturday, April 22, 1865 (Sarah Morgan does not mourn President Lincoln.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-sarah-morgan-saturday-april-22.html

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Today’s posts:

“William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life,” reply #3
Gen. Sherman letter to Mrs. Sherman, #4
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #5
George Templeton Strong, #6
Mary B. Chesnut, #7
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #8

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Continued from April 19 (reply #48)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4311134/posts#48

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

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

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

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Sunday, April 23, 1865 (“Sherman’s terms were based on a liberal construction of President Lincoln’s benevolent wishes”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/02/diary-of-gideon-welles-sunday-april-23.html

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 23, 1865 (“This is the most cruel and humiliating indignity that has been put upon me. (It is General Grant’s work)”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/major-general-george-g-meade-to_27.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, April 23, 1865 (Lt. Col. Lyman describes the meeting between the lines of Lee, Grant and Meade after the surrender.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_25.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Sunday, April 23, 1865 (“Lt Hook comes to the Regt with the sad intiligence of the Assassination of President Lincoln & Sec Seward which is published in the Mobile paper.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/02/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-john-s-morgan_21.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, April 23, 1865 (“We had regimental inspection at 10 a. m. and this afternoon at 2 o’clock our division was reviewed by General Smith. The division came out in good style.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_3.html

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Today’s posts:

“Jefferson Davis, American,” reply #10
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #11
George Templeton Strong, #12
Mary B. Chesnut, #13
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #14

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Continued from April 21 (reply #57).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4311134/posts?q=1&;page=51#57

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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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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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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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, April 24, 1865 (“Yesterday the Sixth Corps was ordered to Danville, to be there under Sheridan’s orders; so that I am reduced to two corps”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/02/major-general-george-g-meade-to_28.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, April 24, 1865 (“There is no peace with these in this generation. In my judgment, there is just one hope for us now, and that is a war with a foreign power”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/09/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_17.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Monday, April 24, 1865 (“The Seventeenth Army Corps marched to Raleigh this afternoon and was reviewed by Lieutenant-General Grant and Major-General Sherman.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_54.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: Wednesday, April 24, 1865 (Judith McGuire returns to her home in Alexandria, VA.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_4.html