{"id":107078,"date":"2021-06-01T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107078"},"modified":"2021-05-30T22:31:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T03:31:02","slug":"extracts-from-the-journal-of-commander-semmes-c-s-navy-commanding-c-s-s-sumter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/extracts-from-the-journal-of-commander-semmes-c-s-navy-commanding-c-s-s-sumter-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Extracts from the journal of Commander Semmes, C.S. Navy, commanding C.S.S. Sumter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Saturday, June 1<\/em>, finds us not yet ready for sea. The tanks have all been taken on board and stowed; the gun carriages for the 32&#8217;s will be finished on Monday. The circles for the 8 -inch have been laid down and the fighting bolts are ready for placing. On Monday I shall throw the crew on board, and by Thursday next I shall without doubt be ready for sea. In the meantime both the practicable passes are blockaded, the one by the <em>Brooklyn<\/em> and the other by the <em>Powhatan<\/em>, but fortune will favor us and we shall run by.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, June 1, finds us not yet ready for sea. The tanks have all been taken on board and stowed; the gun carriages for the 32&#8217;s will be finished on Monday. The circles for the 8 -inch have been laid down and the fighting bolts are ready for placing. On Monday I shall throw the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":90112,"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-107078","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\/01\/Raphael-Semmes-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107078","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=107078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}