{"id":12020,"date":"2021-07-12T04:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2021-07-12T00:56:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T05:56:22","slug":"rebel-war-clerk-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rebel-war-clerk-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel War Clerk&#8217;s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 12th.\u2014The colonel\u2019s temper is as variable as an April day\u2014now all smiles and sunshine, but by-and-by a cloud takes all away. He becomes impatient with a long-winded story, told by some business applicant\u2014and <em>storms<\/em> whenever any one asks him if the Secretary is in.<\/p>\n<p>To-day, for the first time, I detected a smile on the lip of Col. Myers, the Quartermaster-General, as he passed through the office. A moment after, Gen. Walker, of Georgia, came in, and addressed the colonel thus:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is the Secretary in?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Col. <\/em>(<em>with a stare<\/em>). I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gen. W.<\/em> (returning the stare). Could you not ascertain for me? I have important business with him; and am here by appointment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Col. B<\/em>. You can ascertain for yourself. I am not his door-keeper. There is his door.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gen. W.<\/em> (after a moment\u2019s reflection). I asked you a civil question in a courteous manner, and have not deserved this harshness, and will not submit to it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Col. B.<\/em> It is not courteous to presume I am acting in the capacity of a messenger or door-keeper.<\/p>\n<p>Just then the Secretary appeared at the door, having heard the loud language, and Gen. W. immediately entered his office.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward the colonel fumed and fretted like an angry volcano. He disliked Col. Myers, and believed he had sent the general in under prompting to annoy him about the Secretary, whom he (Myers) really hated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 12th.\u2014The colonel\u2019s temper is as variable as an April day\u2014now all smiles and sunshine, but by-and-by a cloud takes all away. He becomes impatient with a long-winded story, told by some business applicant\u2014and storms whenever any one asks him if the Secretary is in. To-day, for the first time, I detected a smile on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":65946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-rebel-war-clerks-diary-at-the-confederate-states-capital-by-john-beauchamp-jones"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/John-Beauchamp-Jones...jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020","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=12020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}