{"id":105567,"date":"2021-05-06T04:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=105567"},"modified":"2021-05-04T02:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T07:20:37","slug":"privateering-on-the-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/privateering-on-the-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Privateering on the Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Floyd, Carroll Parish, La.,<\/span><br \/>\n[May &#8211;, 1861.]<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Dear Sir<\/span>: The undersigned, who are now raising a company for the purpose of privateering on the Mississippi River, are desirous of the issuance to them of letters of marque and reprisal from our Government for that purpose.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The first name signed hereto would respectfully refer you to the Hon . T. O. Moore, governor of Louisiana, and Hon. Ed. Sparrow, member of the Confederate Congress from this State, and who resides in our parish.<br \/>\nPlease let us hear from you at the earliest moment. Respectfully, your, etc.,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">E.J. Delany<br \/>\nP.J. Holstein <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hon.<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"> L. Pope Walker,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><em>Secretary of War, Confederate States of America.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd, Carroll Parish, La., [May &#8211;, 1861.] Dear Sir: The undersigned, who are now raising a company for the purpose of privateering on the Mississippi River, are desirous of the issuance to them of letters of marque and reprisal from our Government for that purpose. The first name signed hereto would respectfully refer you to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":105569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-of-the-rebellion-a-compilation-of-the-official-records-of-the-union-and-confederate-armies"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Mississippi-Steamer.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105567","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=105567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}