{"id":105486,"date":"2021-05-01T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=105486"},"modified":"2021-04-28T17:18:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:18:06","slug":"reward-of-merit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/reward-of-merit\/","title":{"rendered":"Reward of Merit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Charleston Mercury<\/em><br \/>\nMay 1, 1861<\/p>\n<p>The women of Carolina, ever public-spirited and self sacrificing, have always given their approving smiles to the efforts of the brave and true. As a recent instance of this spirit, we have been allowed an opportunity of inspecting a massive gold medal, an offering from the lady friends of the Palmetto Guard, as a remembrance of their long-to-be-remembered 12th and 13th April, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>The medal is of gold, and elegantly wrought. On the obverse, a Palmetto tree in centre, with Rattlesnake in coil, rattles sprung; over the tree the words \u2018PALMETTO GUARD,\u2019 and around the border, \u2018their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters.\u2019 On reverse, the Stevens\u2019 Battery in the foreground, with State flag\u2014Gun No. 1 just fired\u2014Fort Sumter, with the Federal flag about falling\u2014the fleet in the distance; above is the motto, \u2018None but the brave deserve the fair;\u2019 below, \u2018April 12th and 13th, 1861.\u2019 A richly engraved border surrounds the whole. This beautiful work of art is from the jewelry store of Messrs. SPENCER &amp; TEAGUE, and the engraving by the now well known engraver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">BORNEMANN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charleston Mercury May 1, 1861 The women of Carolina, ever public-spirited and self sacrificing, have always given their approving smiles to the efforts of the brave and true. As a recent instance of this spirit, we have been allowed an opportunity of inspecting a massive gold medal, an offering from the lady friends of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":85332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charleston-Mercury.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105486","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=105486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}