{"id":107107,"date":"2021-07-01T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107107"},"modified":"2021-07-01T01:39:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:39:22","slug":"extracts-from-the-journal-of-commander-semmes-c-s-navy-commanding-c-s-s-sumter-20","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-20\/","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>Monday, July 1.<\/em>\u2014Weather beautiful and clear, with the deep blue sea rolling brightly around us, and a gentle breeze from the southward and westward. We have seen no sail since we lost sight of the Brooklyn, and have averaged a speed of about 8 knots. Latitude at noon, 26\u00b0 18&#8242; north; longitude, 87\u00b0 23&#8242;, steering S. S. E. Calm at nightfall, with a sky full of stars. A brilliant comet bearing about N. N. E.was visible in the early part of the night.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, July 1.\u2014Weather beautiful and clear, with the deep blue sea rolling brightly around us, and a gentle breeze from the southward and westward. We have seen no sail since we lost sight of the Brooklyn, and have averaged a speed of about 8 knots. Latitude at noon, 26\u00b0 18&#8242; north; longitude, 87\u00b0 23&#8242;, steering [&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-107107","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\/107107","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=107107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107107\/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=107107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}