{"id":11660,"date":"2021-05-15T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2021-05-02T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T16:41:17","slug":"events-diary-may-15-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/events-diary-may-15-1861\/","title":{"rendered":"Events Diary, May 15, 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013A proclamation of neutrality with respect to the Secession rebellion is issued by Queen Victoria, in which all subjects of Great Britain are forbidden to enter the service of the contending parties, or to endeavor \u201cto break a blockade lawfully and effectually established.\u201d \u2013(<em>Doc. 168<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2013The bark Ocean Eagle, Capt. Luce, from Rockland, Me., with 3,144 casks of lime, consigned to Creevy &amp; Farwell, was captured by the privateer steamer Calhoun, of New Orleans. \u2013<em>N. O. Picayune, May 17<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Two yachts, belonging to private individuals, were formally accepted by the Government, and detailed for service by the Treasury Department. Their owners, James Gordon Bennett, jr., of New York, and T. P. Ives, of Providence, R. I., were commissioned as Lieutenants in the Revenue service, and ordered to their respective vessels as Lieutenants commanding.\u2013<em>N. Y. Tribune, May 16<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Bishop Whittingham, the head of the Episcopal Church in Maryland, addressed a circular to the several Episcopal clergymen of his diocese, forbidding hereafter the omission of the prayer for the President of the United States from the regular church service; which had been done by a few disunion persons under his jurisdiction.\u2013(<em>Doc. 169<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2013The town of Potosi, in Washington county, Mo., was taken possession of, under orders of Gen. Lyon, by Captain Coles, of company A, Fifth Regiment, of United States volunteers.\u2013(<em>Doc. 169 \u00bd.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013A proclamation of neutrality with respect to the Secession rebellion is issued by Queen Victoria, in which all subjects of Great Britain are forbidden to enter the service of the contending parties, or to endeavor \u201cto break a blockade lawfully and effectually established.\u201d \u2013(Doc. 168.) \u2013The bark Ocean Eagle, Capt. Luce, from Rockland, Me., with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-rebellion-record-by-frank-moore"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Rebellion-Record.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660","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=11660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}