{"id":11515,"date":"2021-04-20T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2021-04-16T22:36:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T03:36:35","slug":"josiah-marshall-favill-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/josiah-marshall-favill-3\/","title":{"rendered":"To-morrow we start for the war."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saturday night, April 20th. <\/em>To-morrow we start for the war. Since Wednesday I have been receiving the utmost attention from everybody. It is so strange to see this wonderful enthusiasm and loyalty. It is impossible for a man in uniform to pay for anything he wants; wherever I go all want to do something for me; in crossing the ferries men filled my pockets with cigars, and even insisted upon my taking money from them, and when I refused, actually forced it into my pockets; they must do something, and look upon us, I suppose, as their representatives. There is no end to their generosity and enthusiasm, which is well for the republic.<\/p>\n<p>I attended a great reception given in my honor at the E-Hotel to-night, which proved a magnificent affair. Everybody that I knew, almost, was there, and fun and frolic with songs, music, and speeches, continued until the clock struck twelve. There were amongst the young fellows a number belonging to a glee club, who sang patriotic and pathetic war-songs innumerable, and contributed immensely to the enjoyment of the evening. When we broke up, and our last good-byes were spoken, every man grasped me by the hand, many of them kissed me, and all united in wishing me good luck and a safe return. After taking an affectionate farewell of one who was more to me than all others, I hastened from the room amidst the cries of &#8220;God bless you&#8221;; &#8220;Take care of yourself&#8221;; &#8220;Be sure and thrash the rascals,&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n<p>It was very hard to part when the time actually came, being my first experience, and I must admit feeling decidedly unwarlike and very desolate. However, I went home, turned into my comfortable bed, wondering what sort of beds we should probably have in the army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night, April 20th. To-morrow we start for the war. Since Wednesday I have been receiving the utmost attention from everybody. It is so strange to see this wonderful enthusiasm and loyalty. It is impossible for a man in uniform to pay for anything he wants; wherever I go all want to do something for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":70362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diary-of-a-young-officer-josiah-marshall-favill"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Favill-Josiah-Marshal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515","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=11515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}