{"id":12800,"date":"2021-10-15T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T16:26:44","slug":"a-weeks-furlough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-weeks-furlough\/","title":{"rendered":"A week\u2019s furlough.&#8211;Wolsey family letters."},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Joseph Howland got a week\u2019s furlough about the middle of October and we all went North together. Just before leaving Washington Eliza writes:<\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<p>We did a few errands, went to see the Indiana boys at the Patent Office again, and to the Columbian College Hospital, and also to call on Will Winthrop, now Lieutenant of the Berdan Sharp Shooters. He entertained us in his tent, a nice neat one, full of contrivances\u2013painted table, book shelves and a <em>wash-stand<\/em>. Captain Hastings<a href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> of his company received us too; and when we left, Will begged us to walk down the color-line with them as \u201cit would increase their importance to be seen with two <em>rather<\/em> good-looking women. And if one of the field officers would <em>only<\/em> come by and ask who we were!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday (the 13th) we went to St. John\u2019s Church and shook hands with General Scott and asked him in fun for leave of absence. He \u201cthought we couldn\u2019t be spared!\u201d<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"transparent\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/transparent4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"6\" \/>\n<address>Eliza and Joseph Howland went at once to their own home at Fishkill.<\/address>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"transparent\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/transparent4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"6\" \/>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> He died insane, at the close of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Howland got a week\u2019s furlough about the middle of October and we all went North together. Just before leaving Washington Eliza writes: \u00a0 We did a few errands, went to see the Indiana boys at the Patent Office again, and to the Columbian College Hospital, and also to call on Will Winthrop, now Lieutenant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eliza-Newton-Woolsey-Howland.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800","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=12800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}