Jerry! I should have known
Thank you so much! Yes, I was trying to Google my way to the answer and figured out my mistake in terminology. 
Thank you, Jerry! The period of my Harriet Lane, late 1862, she was commanded by Navy officers. Her captain, Commander. J. M. Wainwright and executive officer, Lt. Commander. Edward Lea died defending her on January 1, 1863.
WRONG!!!! See yellow arrow. The is no inner fore topmast stay. Not in the kit plans and most importantly not in Webb's sail and spar plan for Harriet Lane's sister ship America. 
I have thought about the question of functionality throughout the rigging process, Jerry. For instance, how are the sailor supposed to get to the ratlines on the lower and upper shrouds, or adjust the tension of the main and fore stays? From a scale perspective much of what I have already done makes no sense. I suppose they will have to stand on each other's shoulders.
Jerry! Thank you! As much as I didn't want to hear your advice, after having my coffee and a few cigarettes (breakfast of champions), I did hear it. So the work to redo is underway. The foremast preventer stay is aboard and the upper heart is just above the height of the most forward pin bitts. Pics later, including my process for making hearts out of unusable deadeyes.
Jerry! Thanks for sharing this with me! Your reference mirrors the information and diagrams in Underhill. I went through Underhill and Crothers for my references for hearts. They are discussed and Underhill gives a nice description of how to set up the lanyards. Nowhere, however, is there any detail about height above the deck, etc.
Impressive....Very! Nice one Chuck
Grant! Thank you! I hope you are recovering well from your week long birthday party
Jerry! Thank you! Crothers and Underhill, my primary sources, certainly show that the kit, as planned, doesn't match the period correct head rigging. In fact, my jib stay on a traveler is wrong for the period. If my recollection serves (relying on my recollection rather than walking down to the shipyard and getting the books - I'm tired) all of the outer stays pass through the jib and are led back to the hull via a much more complicate martingale set up to either deadeyes and lanyard or turnbuckles attached to the hull. I was led to the archaic jib stay setup by following another modeler's build of Harriet Lane. By the time I studied my sources and realize my error, I had a hole in my jib boom and a nifty traveler I made. Rather than scrap it all, I decided to go with my inaccurate set up. Honestly, in part I did not want to turn another jib boom and waste my nifty scratch-made traveler, but I also like the look and the additional details of the inhaul and outhaul lines going through the fair leads to the bitts I set up in the bow.
