{"id":853,"date":"2012-04-02T15:15:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=853"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:13:31","slug":"august-16-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/04\/02\/august-16-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"August 16, 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-vol1-210-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-854\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-210-c-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon-v1-p202\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-210-c-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-210-c-768x1049.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-210-c-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-210-c.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/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 202:<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">August<\/span> <span style=\"margin-left: 118px;\">1862<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 70px;\">16<\/span><br \/>\nHarrison\u2019s Landing<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">We<\/span> are not off yet,<br \/>\nand troops are still pushing on.<br \/>\nThe programme has been changed.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">We are now the rear guard<\/span> which<br \/>\nwe might have known before, if<br \/>\nwe had thought. Strange that there<br \/>\nhas been no fighting yet. What<br \/>\ndoes it mean. Yesterday we heard<br \/>\nan occasional shot. Am a little<br \/>\ntroubled about matters. Still I<br \/>\nshall hope and trust that everything<br \/>\nis well.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">_________,,_________<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">Last<\/span> evening I passed an<br \/>\nalmost wholly sleepless night. It<br \/>\nwas unusually cold, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my<br \/>\nhands are covered with marks of<br \/>\nmuskitoe [sic] bites.<\/span> Had nothing but my<br \/>\novercoat for protection from the cold.<br \/>\nWas so uncomfortable that I could<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>Page 203:<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>not lay quiet, but had to walk<br \/>\naround.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">_________,,_________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">There<\/span> are no rations for us.<br \/>\nThis morning Humphrey made us<br \/>\nsome coffee and Joe found some<br \/>\npotatoes which he fried. Altogether<br \/>\nbreakfast quite passable. What<br \/>\nshall we do for our next meal?<br \/>\nNo sleep again for us for some time.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">_________,,_________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">It<\/span> will be strange indeed if<br \/>\nthere is no fighting today.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">_________,,_________<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"margin-left: 28px;\">No<\/span> forage for our horses.<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">_________,,_________<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-853\" data-postid=\"853\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-853 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [Click image to view] Page 202: August 1862 16 Harrison\u2019s Landing We are not off yet, and troops are still pushing on. The programme has been changed. We are now the rear guard which we might have known before, if we had thought. Strange that there has been no fighting yet. What does it [&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\/853"}],"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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15121,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/15121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}