{"id":10987,"date":"2021-01-06T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2020-12-08T20:51:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T01:51:44","slug":"operations-in-florida-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/operations-in-florida-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI would be pleased to receive advice as to what disposition I shall make of myself and men.\u201d\u2014Operations in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">QUINCY, FLA., <em>January <\/em>6, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>SIR: I beg leave to state that I telegraphed this morning from Chattahoochee, and finding that I could get no answer, I came to this place and thought probably I might get an answer from you by writing from here. I informed you that the Florida troops had taken possession of the arsenal, and my force being so weak I was unable to offer any resistance. \u00a0 I mailed a copy of the governor&#8217;s order, &amp;c., this morning at Chattahoochee, but finding that it would not be forwarded on account excitement\u2013they have taken all the public property in spite of all I could do&#8211;I refused giving up the keys, but the governor telegraphed to the commanding officer to insist on the delivery of the same, and I was compelled to give them up. I would be pleased to receive advice as to what disposition I shall make of myself and men.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span>I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">E. POWELL, <em><br \/>\nOrdnance Sergeant, U.S. Army.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Capt. W. MAYNADIER, <em>Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUINCY, FLA., January 6, 1861. SIR: I beg leave to state that I telegraphed this morning from Chattahoochee, and finding that I could get no answer, I came to this place and thought probably I might get an answer from you by writing from here. I informed you that the Florida troops had taken possession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[41],"class_list":{"0":"post-10987","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","8":"tag-operations-in-florida"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/War-of-the-Rebellion-Official-Records-e1617334712502.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987","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=10987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}