{"id":101578,"date":"2024-07-14T01:20:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T06:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=101578"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:22:08","slug":"experience-of-a-confederate-chaplain-rev-a-d-betts-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/experience-of-a-confederate-chaplain-rev-a-d-betts-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreat."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 13\u2014Pass Rockville and Poolville.<\/p>\n<p>July 14\u2014Cross Potomac. As I came near the river a straggling soldier shouted to me and asked me to let him ride the horse I was leading. I told him the horse&#8217;s back was so sore I could not myself ride him. In a sharp angry tone he replied, &#8220;Yes, you think more of a horse than you do of a man.&#8221; I stopped. As he came near, I said, &#8220;Young man, you ought not to speak to me that way. I have waded the James and the Potomac for a sick man to ride my horse. I will now wade this river and let you ride over.&#8221; He did not wait for me to dismount. He hurried into the warm, shallow water. I trust he and each reader will be slower to judge others than he was that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 13\u2014Pass Rockville and Poolville. July 14\u2014Cross Potomac. As I came near the river a straggling soldier shouted to me and asked me to let him ride the horse I was leading. I told him the horse&#8217;s back was so sore I could not myself ride him. In a sharp angry tone he replied, &#8220;Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":101323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-experience-of-a-confederate-chaplain-rev-a-d-betts"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Rev.-A.-D.-Betts-Chaplain-30th-Regiment.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}