{"id":105604,"date":"2021-05-03T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=105604"},"modified":"2021-05-01T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T15:46:57","slug":"a-stand-of-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-stand-of-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"A Stand of Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-105605\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Image14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Image14.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Image14-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Daily Times<\/em><br \/>\n(Leavenworth, KS)<br \/>\nMay 3, 1861<\/p>\n<p>Several correspondents ask us what is a &#8220;stand of arms.&#8221; It is the equipment of one soldier, and consists of the arms and accoutrements he wears, varying with his branch of the service. Twenty-one thousand stand of arms would equip the same number of troops. The term stand is often confused, and sometimes used as convertible with &#8220;stack,&#8221; the familiar manner in which muskets are placed, with bayonets interlocked.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Note:\u00a0 The photo, of course, did not appear with the 1861 news article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Times (Leavenworth, KS) May 3, 1861 Several correspondents ask us what is a &#8220;stand of arms.&#8221; It is the equipment of one soldier, and consists of the arms and accoutrements he wears, varying with his branch of the service. Twenty-one thousand stand of arms would equip the same number of troops. The term stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"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-105604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105604","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=105604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}