{"id":12623,"date":"2021-09-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1836"},"modified":"2021-08-27T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T14:48:01","slug":"tribulation-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/tribulation-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Coats for Jeff Thompson\u2019s men.\u2014\u201dThe most bewildering combination of brilliant, intense reds, greens, yellows, and blues in big flowers\u201d from flannel-lined oilcloth table-covers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sept. 25, 1861.<\/em> (<em>Home again from \u201cThe Pines.\u201d<\/em>)\u2014When I opened the door of Mrs. F.\u2019s room on my return, the rattle of two sewing-machines and a blaze of color met me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh! G., you are just in time to help us; these are coats for Jeff Thompson\u2019s men. All the cloth in the city is exhausted; these flannel-lined oilcloth table-covers are all we could obtain to make overcoats for Thompson\u2019s poor boys. They will be very warm and serviceable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServiceable, yes! The Federal army will fly when they see those coats! I only wish I could be with the regiment when these are shared around.\u201d Yet I helped make them.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, I wonder if any soldiers will ever wear these remarkable coats. The most bewildering combination of brilliant, intense reds, greens, yellows, and blues in big flowers meandering over as vivid grounds; and as no table-cover was large enough to make a coat, the sleeves of each were of a different color and pattern. However, the coats were duly finished. Then we set to work on gray pantaloons, and I have just carried a bundle to an ardent young lady who wishes to assist. A slight gloom is settling down, and the inmates here are not quite so cheerfully confident as in July.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Note: To protect Mrs. Miller\u2019s job as a teacher in post-civil war New Orleans, her diary was published anonymously, edited by G. W. Cable, names were changed and initials were generally used instead of full names<em>\u2014<\/em>and even the initials differed from the real person\u2019s initials. (Read Dora Richards Miller\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/dora-richards-miller-war-diary-of-a-union-woman-in-the-south\/\">biographical sketch<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 25, 1861. (Home again from \u201cThe Pines.\u201d)\u2014When I opened the door of Mrs. F.\u2019s room on my return, the rattle of two sewing-machines and a blaze of color met me. \u201cAh! G., you are just in time to help us; these are coats for Jeff Thompson\u2019s men. All the cloth in the city is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-diary-of-a-union-woman-in-the-south"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Dora-Richards-Miller..jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","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=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}