{"id":13815,"date":"2012-03-13T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=420"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:13:30","slug":"april-28-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/03\/13\/april-28-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"April 28, 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-112-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13594\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-112-c-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon-v1-p108\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-112-c-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-112-c-768x1071.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-112-c-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-112-c.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">Page 108:<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">April<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 68px;\">28<\/span> <span style=\"margin-left: 88px;\">1862<\/span><br \/>\n[<em>Bracket<\/em>: On board Stmr<br \/>\nS.R.Spaulding<br \/>\nin Cheeseman Creek]<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">Here<\/span> we are, still afloat.<br \/>\nAlmost two weeks since we embarked<br \/>\nat Alexandria and no active operations<br \/>\nyet. Nevertheless I am enjoying myself<br \/>\npretty well. Capt. Rodgers often repeats<br \/>\nthe saying of the Irishman:- \u201cof this be<br \/>\nWar, then may we never have Pace.\u201d<br \/>\nThe General accompanied by a few<br \/>\nofficers rode up to Yorktown today<br \/>\nand had a look at the lines. I<br \/>\nwas \u201cstaff officer of the day\u201d today<br \/>\nand reported to division head quarters<br \/>\nat 10a.m. and 5p.m. Nothing for me<br \/>\nin the mail.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">Report<\/span> tonight says that New<br \/>\nOrleans has been captured by our<br \/>\ntroops. Glorious if true.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-13815\" data-postid=\"13815\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-13815 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [Click image to view] Page 108: April 28 1862 [Bracket: On board Stmr S.R.Spaulding in Cheeseman Creek] Here we are, still afloat. Almost two weeks since we embarked at Alexandria and no active operations yet. Nevertheless I am enjoying myself pretty well. Capt. Rodgers often repeats the saying of the Irishman:- \u201cof this be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31223,42964],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15168,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions\/15168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}