{"id":107346,"date":"2021-05-26T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107346"},"modified":"2021-05-24T12:10:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:10:04","slug":"letter-from-alfred-penny-to-his-father-may-26-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/letter-from-alfred-penny-to-his-father-may-26-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Alfred Penny to his father; May 26, 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Camp Draper Near Washington DC<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">Head Quarters Company E 2nd Regt<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-right: 80px;\">May 26th, 1861<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">E Penny <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 100px;\">I wrote to you last week and have not received any answer yet, we are now encamped about 2 miles from Washinton and we receive our meals three times a day We left Washington city last Friday, we are on a branch of the Potamac River and about 40 Rods from Maryland, the camp was in a great excitement last night and we were called to arms, it was caused by the U.S. Troops nearing our camp on the way to Guard a bridge about 1\/2 mile before our camp, nearly all of the soldiers are well we live on Smoked Bacon and crackers with coffee twice a day, I was never healthier or felt better than I do now we have to turn out of bed at 4 1\/2 OC and turn in at 10 OC. I wrote to archy the same day that I worte to you and have received as good an answer as you sent me if you do not answer this I shall not write again. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 150px;\">Yours Alfred C. Penny <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Comp E 2nd Regt. NYSM <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Near Washington DC<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp Draper Near Washington DC Head Quarters Company E 2nd Regt May 26th, 1861 E Penny I wrote to you last week and have not received any answer yet, we are now encamped about 2 miles from Washinton and we receive our meals three times a day We left Washington city last Friday, we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":107347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Letter-from-Alfred-Penny-to-his-father-May-26-1861.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107346","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=107346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}