Posted on 06/23/2020 6:04:11 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts
First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.
Posting history, in reverse order
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The ”Derby Day” – 1-3, 7
The June Month – 2
Editorials – 3-4
The Lounger – 4-5
Humors of the Day – 6
“Tommy” – 8
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Walter Hartright’s Narrative Continued – 8-11
Domestic Intelligence – 11-12
Foreign News – 12-13
The Great Tornado – 14-18
The New Pygmalion – 18-19
The Broken Merchant – 19-20
Captain Brand of the Schooner “Centipede,” by Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo). Chapter XXII-XXIV – 21, 23-25
The Japanese Embassy and Their Attendants - 22
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
It’s good to realize that, while we view the summer of 1860 through the lens of coming Civil War, Harpers let’s us know that people had other concerns on their minds.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
In case anyone is wondering why I posted this excerpt from Team of Rivals today, it is because Lincoln wrote his ego-soothing letter to Salmon Chase on this date. I try to keep the excerpts in order of the pages but sometimes I have to search the footnotes to do it.
Continued from June 26 (reply #8).
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39589577/dudley-field
Laura and Dudley will get married next year. They will promptly have a daughter who lives only until 1865. He will die at age 49, while she will last another 15 years.
Mr. Field must have made something of a public impression, because William Malone a Tammany Hall Democrat, named his son after Mr. Field a couple of years after Field’s death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Field_Malone
Very sad, actually. It looks from his obituary as though the Field family completely died out. Dudley was an only child, and none of his father’s brothers had surviving offspring. At least the name remained, thanks to Mr. Malone.
Also, a stadium at Vanderbilt University is called “Dudley Field.”
WASHINGTON CITY, June 29, 1860.
MY DEAR SIR — I beg you to accept my cordial thanks for your friendly letter of the 27th inst. This nomination, as you may perhaps know, was neither sought nor desired by me. I would have much preferred many other gentlemen in both sections of the Union. Your own name, would have been eminently acceptable to my State, whose people have long admired your personal and public character, while I could have supported you all the more cordially, from the pleasant intercourse we had in 1850. But the issue is made, and I must accept the position in which I find myself.
With good wishes and high regard, I am
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE.
SOURCE: John R. Dickinson, editor, Speeches, correspondence, etc., of the late Daniel S. Dickinson of New York, Vol. 2, p. 535
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