{"id":858,"date":"2012-04-03T08:47:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T12:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-shannon\/?p=858"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T15:13:31","slug":"august-17-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2012\/04\/03\/august-17-1862\/","title":{"rendered":"August 17, 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-vol1-212-c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13627\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-212-c-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon-v1-p204\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-212-c-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-212-c-768x1072.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-212-c-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2012\/04\/rcs-diary-vol1-212-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 204:<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 58px;\">August<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 65px;\">17<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 10px;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Our corps began the march<br \/>\nyesterday late in the afternoon.<\/span><br \/>\nWe reached Charles City C.H.<br \/>\nafter dark. Gen. Slocum, Rodgers,<br \/>\n+ myself occupied a room in<br \/>\none of the buildings. The rest<br \/>\nof the staff elsewhere.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">R. woke me up in the<br \/>\nmiddle of the night to carry<br \/>\norders. Off at 4\u00bd this<\/span> morning.<br \/>\nhard march\u2014crossed Chickahominy<br \/>\nlate in the afternoon and the longest<br \/>\nand finest Pontoon bridge ever<br \/>\nconstructed in America. Length<br \/>\n2200 feet, number of pontoons 98.<br \/>\nEncamped for the night near<br \/>\nthe bridge.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-858\" data-postid=\"858\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-858 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [Click image to view] Page 204: August 17 &nbsp; Our corps began the march yesterday late in the afternoon. We reached Charles City C.H. after dark. Gen. Slocum, Rodgers, + myself occupied a room in one of the buildings. The rest of the staff elsewhere. R. woke me up in the middle 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\/858"}],"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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15120,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/15120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}