{"id":14264,"date":"2022-04-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=6200"},"modified":"2021-07-25T01:15:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T06:15:38","slug":"alexander-g-downing-235a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/alexander-g-downing-235a\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander G. Downing records a hard drill at Pittsburg Landing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saturday, 5th<\/em>\u2013We had company drill this morning as usual. Lieutenant Compton took the company out on the drill ground this afternoon for company drill, and he said: &#8220;Now, boys, we drill in earnest for an hour, then return to our quarters, put away our rifles, and then to the branch for bathing.&#8221; It was warm, but the men all went into it and after a hard drill we had a good wash-off in the branch.<a name=\"_ftnref1_5364\"><\/a><a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> This was the last time that Lieutenant Compton ever drilled our company, for the poor fellow was killed in the battle on the next day, Sunday, a little after noon. He was a fine drillmaster, and kind to his men, especially to those who tried to do their duty.\u2014A. G. D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 5th\u2013We had company drill this morning as usual. Lieutenant Compton took the company out on the drill ground this afternoon for company drill, and he said: &#8220;Now, boys, we drill in earnest for an hour, then return to our quarters, put away our rifles, and then to the branch for bathing.&#8221; It was warm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":90905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-downings-civil-war-diary"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/downing-thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264","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=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}