Harper’s Weekly – April 23, 1864

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #32
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #33
Gen. Sherman letter to Mrs. Sherman, #34
Lincoln Letter to Union Governor of Arkansas, #35
John Hay, #36
George Templeton Strong, #37
John Jackman, #38
Mary B. Chesnut, #39
Links to 5 items at Civil War Notebook, #40

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In the Ken Burns documentary, the excerpts from George Templeton Strong's diary was by George Plimpton, another NYC society boy. Plimpton was actually descended from various Civil War era figures on his mother's side: Adelbert Ames, Oakes Ames, and Benjamin Butler. The two Ameses were not related. Medal of Honor recipient Adelbert Ames died at the age of 97 in 1933.

Adelbert Ames was also the great-grandfather of George Plimpton. John F. Kennedy, through George Plimpton, is indirectly responsible for a full-length biography of General Ames. In Profiles in Courage, Kennedy relied on Reconstruction-era historical texts to produce a brief but misleading, false, and devastating portrait of Ames's administration of Mississippi in his profile of Mississippi Senator Lucius Q. C. Lamar. Ames's daughter Blanche Ames Ames, a formidable figure in Massachusetts, bombarded the then-senator with letters complaining about the depiction and continued her barrage after Kennedy entered the White House. President Kennedy then turned to his friend Plimpton to tell Blanche, Plimpton's grandmother, that she was "interfering with state business." Her response was to write a book about her father, Adelbert Ames, in 1964.

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, April 28, 1864 (“The scheme is not practical, yet it has the sanction of General Grant. It must, however, be a blind, intended to deceive the enemy”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday-april_3.html

Diary of Gideon Welles: Thursday, April 28, 1864 (“General Frank Blair has resigned his seat in the House, and the President has revoked the acceptance of his military resignation. This is a stretch of power and construction that I do not like.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-thursday-april.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, April 28, 1864 (“The General and I dined to-day with the Honorable John Minor Botts . . . He is one of the most interesting men in conversation I think I have ever met”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_2.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: April 28, 1864 (“Supposition is that we go to Huntsville first, there store our baggage, and then cross the Tennessee river and open the Spring campaign.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/05/captain-charles-wright-wills-april-28.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant George G. Smith: April 28, 1864 (“The notorious Quantrel, the bushwhacker was on the opposite side of the river so the Second brigade was ordered to cross and take positions to protect that part of the town.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/12/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-george-g-smith_28.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: April 28, 1864 (“Dr. Lewis is still getting worse with scurvy and dropsy combined. Limbs swollen to double their usual size — just like puff-balls.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/06/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom_9.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 28, 1864 (“Lieut.-Gen. Longstreet, it is said, is “hidden.” I suppose he is working his way around the enemy’s right flank. If so, we shall soon hear thunder.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-28.html

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Today’s posts:

John Hay, reply #43
John Nicolay, #44
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #45
John Jackman, #46
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #47

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Continued from April 19 (reply #23).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4231517/posts#23

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Friday, April 29, 1864 (“Damaging stories” concerning Sec. Chase and the Treasury Dept. and the story of Mrs. White and the special pass Lincoln didn’t give her.)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2019/06/diary-of-gideon-welles-friday-april-29.html

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, April 29, 1864 (“Meanwhile, rest assured of my health and personal safety. Admiral Porter is safe and sitting by my side as I write. He is a noble fellow, game as a pheasant; so is old A. J. a perfect trump.”

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/brigadier-general-thomas-kilby-smith-to_19.html

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Mary Emeline Hurlburt Rawlins, April 29, 1864 (“I am satisfied from the effect these rides have upon me I shall have to take a leave of absence for two or three months unless I get better much faster than I am at present.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/04/brigadier-general-john-rawlins-to-mary_3.html

Senator James W. Grimes to Elizabeth Nealley Grimes, April 29, 1864 (“Every one is incensed against Banks, and demands his supersedure. Our disaster in Louisiana was much greater than was reported.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/10/senator-james-w-grimes-to-elizabeth_29.html

Francis H. Wigfall, April 29, 1864 (“We are barely managing to exist on the third of a pound of bacon. We keep up our spirits however, and hope for the time when Congress shall intervene in our behalf and satisfy the Oliver Twists of the Army.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/10/francis-h-wigfall-april-29-1864.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 29, 1864 (“Troops are passing through Richmond now, day and night, concentrating under Lee. The great battle cannot be much longer postponed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/06/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-april-29.html

Diary of Margaret Junkin Preston: April 29, 1864 (“A curious commentary upon the times is that I had to prepare provisions sufficient for the journey, for them to take along, as nothing can be gotten on the way.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2015/05/diary-of-margaret-junkin-preston-april.html

Diary of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire: April 29, 1864 (“The country seems to continue quiet, but the campaign on the Rapidan is expected to open every day. Oh, how I dread it!”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/01/diary-of-judith-brockenbrough-mcguire_26.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #49
George Templeton Strong, #50
John Jackman, #51
Links to 8 items at Civil War Notebook, #52