{"id":107220,"date":"2021-08-14T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107220"},"modified":"2021-08-03T00:18:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:18:50","slug":"extracts-from-the-journal-of-commander-semmes-c-s-navy-commanding-c-s-s-sumter-64","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-64\/","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>Wednesday, August 14<\/em>.\u2014Morning beautiful, with fleecy trade clouds, promising a fine breeze, but the breeze never came; the clouds passed on sluggishly and changed their forms and positions, but no wind. A livelong, calm day, with nothing but cat\u2019s paws and currents, the latter setting about W. N. W. We have lessened our soundings somewhat, being in 23 fathoms at 4 p.m. The silver mountains in sight, bearing S. W. \u00bd S. Saw a sail during the morning afar off under the land, but could not make her out. Gained a little on the northerly current to-day. Latitude, 4 \u00b0 49&#8242; N .; longitude,51\u00b0 19&#8242;. Cayenne bearing about west, distant 55 miles.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, August 14.\u2014Morning beautiful, with fleecy trade clouds, promising a fine breeze, but the breeze never came; the clouds passed on sluggishly and changed their forms and positions, but no wind. A livelong, calm day, with nothing but cat\u2019s paws and currents, the latter setting about W. N. W. We have lessened our soundings somewhat, [&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-107220","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\/107220","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=107220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107220\/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=107220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}