{"id":12096,"date":"2021-07-23T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2021-07-22T19:22:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T00:22:40","slug":"a-diary-from-dixie-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-diary-from-dixie-52\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It comes and it comes, until I feel inclined to close my ears and scream.&#8221;\u2014A Diary From Dixie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Tuesday.<\/em>\u2013Witnessed for the first time a military funeral. As that march came wailing up, they say Mrs. Bartow fainted. The empty saddle and the led war-horse \u2013we saw and heard it all, and now it seems we are never out of the sound of the Dead March in Saul. It comes and it comes, until I feel inclined to close my ears and scream.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Mrs. Singleton and ourselves sat on a bedside and mingled our tears for those noble spirits\u2013John Darby, Theodore Barker, and James Lowndes. To-day we find we wasted our grief; they are not so much as wounded. I dare say all the rest is true about them\u2013in the face of the enemy, with flags in their hands, leading their men. &#8220;But Dr. Darby is a surgeon.&#8221; He is as likely to forget that as I am. He is grandson of Colonel Thomson of the Revolution, called, by way of pet name, by his soldiers, &#8220;Old Danger.&#8221; Thank Heaven they are all quite alive. And we will not cry next time until officially notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday.\u2013Witnessed for the first time a military funeral. As that march came wailing up, they say Mrs. Bartow fainted. The empty saddle and the led war-horse \u2013we saw and heard it all, and now it seems we are never out of the sound of the Dead March in Saul. It comes and it comes, until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-diary-from-dixie-by-mary-boykin-miller-chesnut"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/chesnut_mary-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096","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=12096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}