{"id":107180,"date":"2021-08-06T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107180"},"modified":"2021-08-02T23:57:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T04:57:52","slug":"extracts-from-the-journal-of-commander-semmes-c-s-navy-commanding-c-s-s-sumter-56","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-56\/","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, August 6<\/em>.\u2014Weather very fine, with light breezes from about E. N. E., making good way over the smooth sea. At about 10 a.m. passed a brigantine on the weather beam , distant some 12 or 14 miles. As I was anxious to make my run and had no fuel to spare upon chases and the delay incident to capture, I permitted this lonely wayfarer to pursue his course unmolested, for which some Yankee may no doubt thank his stars and my circumstances, not my forbearance. No current experienced. Latitude, 9\u00b014&#8242;; longitude, 59\u00b010&#8242;.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, August 6.\u2014Weather very fine, with light breezes from about E. N. E., making good way over the smooth sea. At about 10 a.m. passed a brigantine on the weather beam , distant some 12 or 14 miles. As I was anxious to make my run and had no fuel to spare upon chases and [&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-107180","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\/107180","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=107180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107180\/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=107180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}