{"id":13075,"date":"2026-11-12T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=5280"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:55:25","slug":"rutherford-b-hayes-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rutherford-b-hayes-167\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Rutherford B. Hayes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Camp Ewing, Virginia, up New River, twelve miles above Gauley. November 12. Tuesday. <\/em>\u2013 Officer of the day. Rode to Townsend&#8217;s Ferry to see Major Crawford&#8217;s folly. Saw it. Preparations to cross New River although the enemy must be aware of our purpose \u2013 a thing difficult if unopposed, impossible and ruinous if opposed. Why don&#8217;t these generals have common sense?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp Ewing, Virginia, up New River, twelve miles above Gauley. November 12. Tuesday. \u2013 Officer of the day. Rode to Townsend&#8217;s Ferry to see Major Crawford&#8217;s folly. Saw it. Preparations to cross New River although the enemy must be aware of our purpose \u2013 a thing difficult if unopposed, impossible and ruinous if opposed. Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":69240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-diary-and-letters-of-rutherford-birchard-hayes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Rutherford-B.-Hayes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075","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=13075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122517,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13075\/revisions\/122517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}