{"id":106141,"date":"2021-05-11T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=106141"},"modified":"2021-05-10T09:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T14:57:42","slug":"from-fort-washita-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/from-fort-washita-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From Fort Washita."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>Weekly Arkansas Gazette<br \/>\n<\/i>Little Rock, Arkansas<br \/>\nMay 11, 1861<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We learn from Mr. Hester, who arrived last evening, direct from Boggy Depot, that the federal troops at Fort Washita, are making preparations to evacuate that post. A gentleman arrived at Boggy Depot on Saturday evening from Fort Washita, informed Mr. Hester, that the commander there had advertised for one hundred wagons, for transportation to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, but the people were unwilling to go at any price. They were offering five dollars per day, but no one could be had. It is supposed that, as soon as they can procure transportation they will evacuate the post immediately.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mr. H., says, Capt. Sturgiss has taken a road for Fort Leavenworth, and has not gone to Fort Washita. He left the main road about 70 miles from this place. He was informed that two of Capt. S&#8217;s men refused to go North with him, one was killed and the other severely wounded with a sabre.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Arkansas Gazette Little Rock, Arkansas May 11, 1861 We learn from Mr. Hester, who arrived last evening, direct from Boggy Depot, that the federal troops at Fort Washita, are making preparations to evacuate that post. A gentleman arrived at Boggy Depot on Saturday evening from Fort Washita, informed Mr. Hester, that the commander there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":105784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-106141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Arkansas-State-Gazette.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106141","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=106141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}