{"id":13377,"date":"2021-12-18T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2021-07-23T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T22:07:57","slug":"diary-of-a-southern-refugee-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/diary-of-a-southern-refugee-58\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cNewspapers have just come, giving an account of a fight at Cheat Mountain, on the 13th of December, in which we were successful.\u201d\u2014Diary of a Southern Refugee, Judith White McGuire."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Briars,&#8221; <em>December <\/em>18.\u2014Sadly negligent of my diary lately. Nothing new has occurred. We pleasantly pursue the even tenor of our way, but are now preparing to go to my brother&#8217;s, in Hanover, next week. We have been to &#8220;Mountain View&#8221; for a couple of days, on a farewell visit to the family. The Bishop has sent his study-carpet to the camp, along with every thing he could possibly spare, for the soldiers&#8217; comfort. He looks cheerfully upon our prospects, and is now listening to &#8220;Motley&#8217;s Dutch Republic&#8221; with &#8220;infinite zest.&#8221; It is read to him by his daughter-in-law, on these long winter nights. His manner of life is certainly most amiable, as well as pleasant to himself and instructive to others.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers have just come, giving an account of a fight at Cheat Mountain, on the 13th of December, in which we were successful. Rumours also of a fight on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; and another rumour that England has demanded the restoration of &#8220;Mason and Slidell,&#8221; and in case of non-compliance with the demand, that Lord Lyons should demand his passports. How ardently I do wish that England would break up the blockade!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Briars,&#8221; December 18.\u2014Sadly negligent of my diary lately. Nothing new has occurred. We pleasantly pursue the even tenor of our way, but are now preparing to go to my brother&#8217;s, in Hanover, next week. We have been to &#8220;Mountain View&#8221; for a couple of days, on a farewell visit to the family. The Bishop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":92645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diary-of-a-southern-refugee-during-the-war-by-judith-white-mcguire"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Judith-White-McQuire.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377","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=13377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}