{"id":107101,"date":"2021-06-25T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107101"},"modified":"2021-06-11T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T06:10:11","slug":"extracts-from-the-journal-of-commander-semmes-c-s-navy-commanding-c-s-s-sumter-14","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-14\/","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>Tuesday, June 25<\/em>.\u2014A thunderstorm and heavy rain at 3:30 a.m., clearing off at 10 a.m. Visited the light-house at the Head of the Passes and took a receipt for the property deposited there, from the Pass \u00e0 l&#8217;Outre and South Pass houses. Visited also the telegraphic station and held communication with both passes. Both blockading ships still at their anchors. The British steam sloop <em>Jason<\/em> was off the Southwest Pass yesterday. Received intelligence that the enemy had taken possession of Ship Island and established a blockade of the sound. Filling shell and cartridges and drilling my very green crew. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, June 25.\u2014A thunderstorm and heavy rain at 3:30 a.m., clearing off at 10 a.m. Visited the light-house at the Head of the Passes and took a receipt for the property deposited there, from the Pass \u00e0 l&#8217;Outre and South Pass houses. Visited also the telegraphic station and held communication with both passes. Both blockading [&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-107101","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\/107101","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=107101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107101\/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=107101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}