{"id":14414,"date":"2022-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:50:12","slug":"the-fight-for-food-and-clothing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-fight-for-food-and-clothing-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to return to New Orleans dashed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>April 28, 1862<\/em>.\u2014This evening has been very lovely, but full of a sad disappointment. H. invited me to drive. As we turned homeward he said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, my arrangements are completed. You can begin to pack your trunks to-morrow, and I shall have a talk with Max.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. R. and Annie were sitting on the gallery as I ran up the steps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeard the news?\u201d they cried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo! What news?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Orleans is taken! All the boats have been run up the river to save them. No more mails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How little they knew what plans of ours this dashed away. But our disappointment is truly an infinitesimal drop in the great waves of triumph and despair surging to-night in thousands of hearts.<\/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>April 28, 1862.\u2014This evening has been very lovely, but full of a sad disappointment. H. invited me to drive. As we turned homeward he said: \u201cWell, my arrangements are completed. You can begin to pack your trunks to-morrow, and I shall have a talk with Max.\u201d Mr. R. and Annie were sitting on the gallery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":98518,"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-14414","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\/2020\/12\/Dora-Richards-Miller.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414","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=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}