August, Saturday 13, 1864<\/p>\n
[First part of this entry is in a different handwriting]<\/em><\/p>\n The sun shone about as usual, the birds sang gaily, I suppose, tho’ I didn’t listen\u2014a gentle breeze was stirring\u2014entirely too gently for the temperature of the day. In fact the whole face of “nature” displayed nothing more than a hot August day. I have managed to love through it by “dint of a squeeze”\u2014I ate breakfast, dinner & supper, knit socks, played backgammon & cards\u2014(at all of which I am a proficient\u2014) pinched, beat, battered and bruised all of the white inhabitants\u2014had my game ear looked into by a Confederate Surgeon. I was dressed in my usual “flowery stile ” at that time of day. I took a bath, but failed to get drowned\u2014by reason of over caution\u2014got “egregriously ” beaten at Euchre & went to bed in a sprightly state of mind.<\/p>\n Tate, and the girls, have returned to Columbus, a note from Tate today, telling me to report to Hd. Qts.\u2014they will return home in a few days.<\/p>\n Lou, like a good child, wrote the first of today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August, Saturday 13, 1864 [First part of this entry is in a different handwriting] The sun shone about as usual, the birds sang gaily, I suppose, tho’ I didn’t listen\u2014a gentle breeze was stirring\u2014entirely too gently for the temperature of the day. In fact the whole face of “nature” displayed nothing more than a hot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":101978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diaries-and-letters-of-belle-edmondson"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Belle-Edmondson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102569","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=102569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}