{"id":10907,"date":"2020-12-24T02:30:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T08:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/intent-to-retake-s-c-forts-if-surrendered\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T10:33:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:33:36","slug":"intent-to-retake-s-c-forts-if-surrendered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/intent-to-retake-s-c-forts-if-surrendered\/","title":{"rendered":"Intent to retake S. C. Forts if surrendered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To Lyman Trumbull<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. Dec. 24, 1860<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Lyman Trumbull\u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>My dear Sir.<\/em> I expect to be able to offer Mr. Blair a place in the cabinet; but I can not, as yet, be committed on the matter, to any extent whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Despatches have come here two days in succession, that the Forts in South Carolina will be surrendered by the order, or consent at least, of the President.<\/p>\n<p>I can scarcely believe this; but if it prove true, I will, if our friends at Washington concur, announce publicly at once that they are to be retaken after the inauguration. This will give the Union Men a rallying cry, and preparation will proceed somewhat on their side, as well as on the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">Yours as ever<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">A. LINCOLN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Lyman Trumbull SPRINGFIELD, ILLS. Dec. 24, 1860 Hon. Lyman Trumbull\u2013 My dear Sir. I expect to be able to offer Mr. Blair a place in the cabinet; but I can not, as yet, be committed on the matter, to any extent whatever. Despatches have come here two days in succession, that the Forts in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":87579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncollected-letters-of-abraham-lincoln"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/lincoln-transparent-thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907","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=10907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}