{"id":11863,"date":"2021-06-15T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2021-06-11T00:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:30:08","slug":"village-life-in-america-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/village-life-in-america-150\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Men are constantly enlisting.&#8221;\u2014Caroline Cowles Richards."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>June, <\/em>1861.\u2013There was a patriotic rally this afternoon on the campus of Canandaigua Academy and we Seminary girls went. They raised a flag on the Academy building. General Granger presided, Dr Coleman led the choir and they sang &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner.&#8221; Mr Noah T. Clarke made a stirring speech and Mr Gideon Granger, James C. Smith and E. M. Morse followed. Canandaigua has already raised over $7,000 for the war. Capt. Barry drills the Academy boys in military tactics on the campus every day. Men are constantly enlisting. Lester P. Thompson, son of &#8220;Father Thompson,&#8221; among the others.<\/p>\n<p>A young man asked Anna to take a drive to-day, but Grandmother was not willing at first to let her go. She finally gave her consent, after Anna&#8217;s plea that he was so young and his horse was so gentle. Just as they were ready to start, I heard Anna run upstairs and I heard him say, &#8220;What an Anna!&#8221; I asked her afterwards what she went for and she said she remembered that she had left the soap in the water.<\/p>\n<p><em>June.<\/em>\u2013Dr Dagget&#8217;s war sermon from the 146th Psalm was wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June, 1861.\u2013There was a patriotic rally this afternoon on the campus of Canandaigua Academy and we Seminary girls went. They raised a flag on the Academy building. General Granger presided, Dr Coleman led the choir and they sang &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner.&#8221; Mr Noah T. Clarke made a stirring speech and Mr Gideon Granger, James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-village-life-in-america"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Caroline-Cowles-Richards.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863","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=11863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}