{"id":13817,"date":"2012-03-13T10:07:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T14:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=444"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:13:30","slug":"may-3-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/03\/13\/may-3-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"May 3, 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-vol1-121-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13603\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-121-c-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon-v1-p117\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-121-c-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-121-c-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-121-c-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/03\/rcs-diary-vol1-121-c.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/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 117:<br \/>\n1862 <span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\"><del datetime=\"2012-03-13T14:00:44+00:00\">April<\/del><\/span> May<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 100px;\">3<\/span>\u201d <span style=\"margin-left: 110px;\">Ship<\/span> PointThe order is changed and<br \/>\nnow we go to the front before Yorktown,<br \/>\nand about the center of the line.<br \/>\nGen. Franklin, I think, will have<br \/>\ncommand of more troops than simply<br \/>\nhis own Division. Some think he will<br \/>\nhave charge of the reserve force. We<br \/>\nshall have some entrenching to do.<br \/>\nSlocum is now the ranking Brigadier<br \/>\nin our division, and may yet become<br \/>\na divisional commander.<br \/>\nWe expect to march tomorrow,<br \/>\nand I look forward to the meeting<br \/>\nof my soldier friends with great<br \/>\npleasure.<br \/>\nBeauregard has fallen back<br \/>\nto Memphis. Fort Mason has capit-<br \/>\nulated, and New Orleans is ours.<br \/>\nGood news enough for this week.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-13817\" data-postid=\"13817\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-13817 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [Click image to view] Page 117: 1862 April May 3\u201d Ship PointThe order is changed and now we go to the front before Yorktown, and about the center of the line. Gen. Franklin, I think, will have command of more troops than simply his own Division. Some think he will have charge of the [&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\/13817"}],"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=13817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15165,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13817\/revisions\/15165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}