{"id":13836,"date":"2012-04-03T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=884"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:13:31","slug":"august-25-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/04\/03\/august-25-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"August 25, 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\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-216-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-885\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-216-c-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon-v1-p208\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-216-c-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-216-c-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-216-c-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-216-c.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/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 208:<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">August<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 65px;\">25th<\/span><br \/>\nAlexandria<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">We<\/span> are encamped<br \/>\njust below Fort Ellsworth and<br \/>\nvery near old \u201cCamp Vernon.\u201d<br \/>\nAll the Staff have gone either<br \/>\nto Alexandria or Washington<br \/>\nexcepting Capt. Hopkins and<br \/>\nmyself. I have been chiefly<br \/>\noccupied in signing passes<br \/>\nfor Washington and rearranging<br \/>\nmy affairs for the approaching<br \/>\ncampaign. We shall be pushed<br \/>\nright on to Manassas without<br \/>\ndoubt.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">(Gen.<\/span> Taylor\u2019s Brigade but on flat cars<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">and<\/span> sent out to Manassas and<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">came<\/span> suddenly from the enemy,<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">were<\/span> routed and driven back<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">+<\/span> Gen. Taylor mortally wounded)<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">I<\/span> was then sent to find Col. Torbert<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">and<\/span> put him in command of the<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">Jersey<\/span> Brigade.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">&#8220;I<\/span>\u2019m not sick any more.\u201d-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-13836\" data-postid=\"13836\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-13836 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [Click image to view] Page 208: August 25th Alexandria We are encamped just below Fort Ellsworth and very near old \u201cCamp Vernon.\u201d All the Staff have gone either to Alexandria or Washington excepting Capt. Hopkins and myself. I have been chiefly occupied in signing passes for Washington and rearranging my affairs for the approaching [&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\/13836"}],"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=13836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15116,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13836\/revisions\/15116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}