{"id":111570,"date":"2024-06-30T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=111570"},"modified":"2021-07-24T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T19:23:49","slug":"i-had-my-canteen-strap-cut-off-by-a-bullet-and-a-spent-glancing-ball-struck-my-ankle-army-life-of-an-illinois-soldier-charles-wright-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/i-had-my-canteen-strap-cut-off-by-a-bullet-and-a-spent-glancing-ball-struck-my-ankle-army-life-of-an-illinois-soldier-charles-wright-wills\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI had my canteen strap cut off by a bullet and a spent glancing ball struck my ankle.\u201d\u2013Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">June 30, 1864 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>There was a terrific fight on our right, commencing at 2 this morning and lasting until 3. I have not yet heard what it was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some deserters passed us this morning. I have lost just half the men I left Scottsboro with just two months ago, but what I have left, are every man ready to help. We have a good deal more than \u201ccleared\u201d ourselves. I had my canteen strap cut off by a bullet and a spent glancing ball struck my ankle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 30, 1864 8 a.m. There was a terrific fight on our right, commencing at 2 this morning and lasting until 3. I have not yet heard what it was. Some deserters passed us this morning. I have lost just half the men I left Scottsboro with just two months ago, but what I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-111570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-army-life-of-an-illinois-soldier-charles-wright-wills"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Charles-Wright-Wills.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111570","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=111570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}