{"id":11852,"date":"2021-06-12T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2021-06-10T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T01:18:46","slug":"the-camp-is-yet-higgledy-piggledy-rutherford-b-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-camp-is-yet-higgledy-piggledy-rutherford-b-hayes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The camp is yet higgledy-piggledy&#8230;&#8221;\u2014Rutherford B. Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">COLUMBUS, June 12, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>DEAR FORCE:\u2013You can&#8217;t regret more than I do the issue of this business, so far as you are concerned. I have tried to get two companies (so as to include you and Company A of G.G. [Guthrie Greys]) admitted. Failing in that, I tried one, but the thing is all settled, and the governor fears to disturb the elements again.<\/p>\n<p>Our regiment promises to be an exceedingly pleasant one. We are the first regimental officers on the ground. Our colonel will command in this camp until a brigadier-general arrives. We are the best known persons, and the struggle is to get into our regiment from all quarters. The camp is yet higgledy-piggledy and will require some labor to bring it up. But all goes on rapidly. We have been busy as bees a large part of the time in the scorching sun; but so far, it [is] great fun. I enjoy it as much as a boy does a Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 210px;\">Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">R.B. HAYES<\/p>\n<p>M. F. FORCE, ESQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, June 12, 1861. DEAR FORCE:\u2013You can&#8217;t regret more than I do the issue of this business, so far as you are concerned. I have tried to get two companies (so as to include you and Company A of G.G. [Guthrie Greys]) admitted. Failing in that, I tried one, but the thing is all settled, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diary-and-letters-of-rutherford-birchard-hayes"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Rutherford-B-Hayes-1852.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852","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=11852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}