{"id":12878,"date":"2021-10-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2021-10-05T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:25:11","slug":"a-beleaguered-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-beleaguered-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Dora Richards Miller records in New Orleans that Union ships \u2018are still serenely anchored below the city.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Oct. 22, 1861.<\/em>\u2014When I came to breakfast this morning Rob was capering over another victory\u2014Ball\u2019s Bluff. He would read me, \u201cWe pitched the Yankees over the bluff,\u201d and ask me in the next breath to go to the theater this evening. I turned on the poor fellow: \u201cDon\u2019t tell me about your victories. You vowed by all your idols that the blockade would be raised by October 1, and I notice the ships are still serenely anchored below the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cG., you are just as pertinacious yourself in championing your opinions. What sustains you when nobody agrees with you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I would not answer.<\/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>Oct. 22, 1861.\u2014When I came to breakfast this morning Rob was capering over another victory\u2014Ball\u2019s Bluff. He would read me, \u201cWe pitched the Yankees over the bluff,\u201d and ask me in the next breath to go to the theater this evening. I turned on the poor fellow: \u201cDon\u2019t tell me about your victories. You vowed [&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-12878","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\/12878","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=12878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/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=12878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}