{"id":14390,"date":"2022-04-24T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2021-07-08T07:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T12:06:31","slug":"landed-the-regiment-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/landed-the-regiment-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Landed the regiment, at last."},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Joe Howland to Eliza Woolsey Howland.<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">York River, April 24<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, at last, I landed the regiment, having asked permission to do so and have the boat thoroughly cleaned. Having picked out a piece of level ground at the head of a little bay where there are lots of oysters, I got a stern-wheeler and sent the regiment ashore by companies, and got all fairly into camp before sunset. I put the major in command on shore, keeping my headquarters on the steamer, and had the work of purification begun as soon as the hold was cleared.<\/p>\n<p>I saw Franklin yesterday, and he asked after you and ours. I took the steamer\u2019s quarter-boat last evening and serenaded the old chap with our stringed band. He seemed pleased and the music sounded very sweetly on the quiet water.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect Commander Rodgers is the right sort of man for the Galena. I heard a story of him to-day. Some one said to him, \u201cYour iron plates are too thin; their thickness should be at least four inches.\u201d His reply (somewhat pro-fane) was, \u201cWhat to h\u2013 do I care about their thickness,\u2013my business is to go up York River and shell the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Howland to Eliza Woolsey Howland. York River, April 24 Yesterday, at last, I landed the regiment, having asked permission to do so and have the boat thoroughly cleaned. Having picked out a piece of level ground at the head of a little bay where there are lots of oysters, I got a stern-wheeler and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66783,"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-14390","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\/Joseph-Howland.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390","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=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}