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Harper’s Weekly – April 29, 1865
Harper's Weekly archives ^ | April 29, 1865

Posted on 04/29/2025 6:55:34 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 3, 1865 (“It is generally believed that after the army is assembled in Washington it will be disbanded.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_3.html

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 3, 1865 (“We are marching too hard. It is using up lots of men.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/major-charles-wright-wills-may-3-1865.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Wednesday, May 3, 1865 (“Rumors of the day — a deserter reports Forest 75 miles from here with 2500 men determined to fight us.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-john-s-morgan_13.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, May 3, 1865 (“There are a great many rebel soldiers throughout the country here, who have just returned from the armies of Johnston and Lee.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_85.html


21 posted on 05/03/2025 7:17:15 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: chajin; henkster; CougarGA7; BroJoeK; central_va; Larry Lucido; wagglebee; Colonel_Flagg; Amagi; ...

Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #18
“Jefferson Davis, American,” #19
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #20
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #21


22 posted on 05/03/2025 7:18:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from May 3 (reply #19)

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

23 posted on 05/04/2025 7:39:21 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from April 29 (reply #3)

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Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography, by Jack Hurst

24 posted on 05/04/2025 7:39:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, edited by C. Vann Woodward

25 posted on 05/04/2025 7:40:27 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Major Charles Wright Wills: May 4, 1865 (“We crossed the N. C. and Va. line about three miles this side of the river. Good country, and people all out gazing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/major-charles-wright-wills-may-4-1865.html

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Thursday, May 4, 1865 (“Maj says that the no. of Rebs from Lees army in Mobile out number the yankees”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/03/diary-of-1st-lieutenant-john-s-morgan_4.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, May 4, 1865 (“went into bivouac within a mile of the Roanoke river. The Fifteenth Corps is in advance of us and their rear crossed the river this evening.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_89.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: May 4, 1865 (“General Johnston surrendered on the 26th of April. ‘My native land, good-night!’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/05/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_5.html


26 posted on 05/04/2025 7:41:08 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Today’s posts:

“Jefferson Davis, American,” reply #23
“Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography,” #24
Mary B. Chesnut, #25
Links to 4 items at Civil War Notebook, #26


27 posted on 05/04/2025 7:42:48 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Continued from April 15 (reply #11).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4311134/posts#11

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Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

28 posted on 05/05/2025 6:50:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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There is a slight discrepancy between Johnny Green and William J. Cooper Jr. as to when the Jefferson Davis party left Washington GA. I would trust Cooper's research more than Green's diary since those diaries are often more memoir than a record made at the time.

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

29 posted on 05/05/2025 6:56:28 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

30 posted on 05/05/2025 6:57:14 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, May 5, 1865 (“Last evening Markoe Bache, who had been to see his friend Custis Lee, was told by him that his father, General Lee, would be glad to see me. I called there to-day and had a long talk with him.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/03/major-general-george-g-meade-to_4.html

Brigadier-General Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Webb Hayes, May 5, 1865 (Gen. Hayes considers quitting public life when his Congressional term is over and opening a law office.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2022/07/brigadier-general-rutherford-b-hayes-to_44.html

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 5, 1865 (“The army is very sore over the affair. We can’t bear to have anybody say a word against Sherman, but he did act very strangely in this thing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/major-charles-wright-wills-may-5-1865.html

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Friday, May 5, 1865 (“News came that the two men who killed the president and stabbed Seward had been shot. All is quiet.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/03/diary-of-5th-sergeant-alexander-g_10.html

Diary of Malvina S. Waring, May 5, 1865 (“We are all here; nobody killed in battle; nobody dead from disease. Have we not something, after all, to be thankful for?”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2025/03/diary-of-malvina-s-waring-may-5-1865.html


31 posted on 05/05/2025 6:57:46 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Today’s posts:

“Lee,” reply #28
Johnny Green, #29
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #30
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #31


32 posted on 05/05/2025 7:00:40 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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