{"id":1426,"date":"2012-05-03T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2021-12-03T00:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T05:05:31","slug":"august-29-1865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/05\/03\/august-29-1865\/","title":{"rendered":"August 29, 1865"},"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\/05\/rcs-diary-vol3-0511.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1427\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/05\/rcs-diary-vol3-0511-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon-v3-p51\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/05\/rcs-diary-vol3-0511-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/05\/rcs-diary-vol3-0511-768x1233.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/05\/rcs-diary-vol3-0511-638x1024.jpg 638w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/05\/rcs-diary-vol3-0511.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/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 51:<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">29th.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Three clerks (civilian) have come<br \/>\nto lighten the toil of my offices<br \/>\nand as they are very capable<br \/>\nmen, I am beginning to feel<br \/>\nmuch easier + more contented.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">Lizzie&#8217;s<\/span> extracts are a<br \/>\nlittle faulty. In order to be<br \/>\nsure that my own thinking<br \/>\nabout them is faulty instead, I<br \/>\nwill forthwith set down my<br \/>\nviews and then carefully send<br \/>\nthem. A thought on paper is a<br \/>\ndifferent thing from a thought<br \/>\nin the mind.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">&#8220;The<\/span> dry region lies between<br \/>\nMatagorda Bay + the Rio Grande.<br \/>\nThe months of July, August, and<br \/>\nSeptember are usually very dry; often<br \/>\nnot an inch of rain falls in the<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Page 52:<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>three months.\u201d So reads the New<br \/>\nCyclopedia.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">Now<\/span> for a few facts.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 68px;\">On<\/span> the 25th. inst. toward<br \/>\nthe middle of the day there were<br \/>\ngathering in the sky black clouds<br \/>\nportending a rain storm or at<br \/>\nleast a shower. Soon came the<br \/>\nrain + with occasional inter-<br \/>\nmissions it continued through the<br \/>\n26th + 27th at times raining<br \/>\nin torrents.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">July<\/span> 1st. at Brazos we<br \/>\nhad a hurricane +rain storm<br \/>\ntogether of the most furious kind.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1426\" data-postid=\"1426\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1426 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [Click image to view] Page 51: &nbsp; 29th. &nbsp; Three clerks (civilian) have come to lighten the toil of my offices and as they are very capable men, I am beginning to feel much easier + more contented. Lizzie&#8217;s extracts are a little faulty. In order to be sure that my own thinking about [&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":[31223,70094],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426"}],"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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/15280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}