{"id":107997,"date":"2021-06-08T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=107997"},"modified":"2021-06-06T18:14:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:14:28","slug":"texas-troops-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/texas-troops-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Troops."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Southern Confederacy<\/em><br \/>\nAtlanta, Georgia<br \/>\nJune 8, 1861<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The &#8220;Palmer Guards,&#8221; company C, Texas Battalion, Captain A. G. Dickerson\u201480 men\u2014passed through here yesterday morning on their way to Virginia. They are well armed and drilled, and are capable of doing the best of service. Capt. D. was accompanied by his beautiful and accomplished bride, who is the daughter of Ex Congressman Coleman, formerly of<br \/>\nKentucky, but now President of the Vicksburg &amp; Shreveport Railroad. They were married but a few days since. The patriotic lady says she has <em>enlisted for the war<\/em> and will share the destinies of her gallant husband, whatever they may be.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The company also had a pet along that attracted no little attention. It was a standard bearer in the person of Madmoeselle Jennette Warde&#8217; from New Orleans\u2014dressed a la bloomer, or soldier fashion, and belted with revolver, Bowie knife, &amp;c. She was sprightly, shared and seemed to enjoy a soldier&#8217;s fare.\u2014The beautiful flag which she carried in her hand was much admired.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Confederacy Atlanta, Georgia June 8, 1861 The &#8220;Palmer Guards,&#8221; company C, Texas Battalion, Captain A. G. Dickerson\u201480 men\u2014passed through here yesterday morning on their way to Virginia. They are well armed and drilled, and are capable of doing the best of service. Capt. D. was accompanied by his beautiful and accomplished bride, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66843,"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-107997","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\/2016\/06\/Southern-Confederacy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107997","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=107997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}