{"id":12441,"date":"2021-09-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:24:11","slug":"journal-of-surgeon-alfred-l-castleman-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/journal-of-surgeon-alfred-l-castleman-18\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c\u2026imbecility in the management of our military affairs.\u201d\u2013Journal of Surgeon Alfred L. Castleman."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>September 1st.<\/em>\u2013I cannot but feel depressed at what seems to be great imbecility in the management of our military affairs. By whose fault, I know not. Here we are with one hundred and fifty thousand troops, and we can stand on our National Capitol and see the rebels fortifying on Munson&#8217;s Hill. I wonder if Gen. McClellan does not need a rest to hold his glass steady whilst he looks at them.<\/p>\n<p>We have just received news of Dupont&#8217;s having got a foothold in North Carolina. This places us in rear of the enemy, and brightens our prospects wonderfully, if our army there will only press their advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 1st.\u2013I cannot but feel depressed at what seems to be great imbecility in the management of our military affairs. By whose fault, I know not. Here we are with one hundred and fifty thousand troops, and we can stand on our National Capitol and see the rebels fortifying on Munson&#8217;s Hill. I wonder if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-journal-of-surgeon-alfred-l-castleman"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Alfred-L.-Castleman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441","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=12441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}