{"id":11845,"date":"2021-06-14T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2021-06-11T00:16:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:16:52","slug":"evacuated-without-bloodshed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/evacuated-without-bloodshed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Aren\u2019t you glad Harper\u2019s Ferry has been evacuated without bloodshed?\u2014Woolsey family letters. Eliza Woolsey Howland to Joseph Hpwland (still in Albany.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">New York, June 14, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>At 10 p. m. the expected telegram arrived saying the \u201cAdriatic\u201d would be at her wharf by 11, and Charley and Mr. S. left at once in carriages to bring the girls up. The travellers all look remarkably well and by no means as seedy and seasick as they ought to by rights. Molly has a sore throat, but is bright and very smart in spite of it, and the other children are lovely as possible. Bertha is the <em>stranger<\/em> after all, for Una is like most other sweet babies \u2013 round and plump and laughing\u2013but Bertha is a little darling, unlike May and unlike Elsie, unlike all other children\u2013not belonging to anyone, in likeness or manner. She is a mere baby herself; just running about and beginning to talk, saying, \u201c<em>I will<\/em>\u201d and \u201c<em>I won\u2019t<\/em>\u201d in the sweetest and most winning way.<\/p>\n<p>Robert has been out to the country with Charley, and the rest of us have had a grand \u201copening\u201d of foreign traps. . . . \u00a0 \u00a0Aren\u2019t you glad Harper\u2019s Ferry has been evacuated without bloodshed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, June 14, 1861. At 10 p. m. the expected telegram arrived saying the \u201cAdriatic\u201d would be at her wharf by 11, and Charley and Mr. S. left at once in carriages to bring the girls up. The travellers all look remarkably well and by no means as seedy and seasick as they ought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eliza-Newton-Woolsey-Howland.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845","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=11845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}