{"id":14546,"date":"2022-05-15T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2021-07-08T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T17:00:22","slug":"nothing-left-but-an-occasional-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/nothing-left-but-an-occasional-mention\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing left but an occasional mention."},"content":{"rendered":"<address>Charley\u2019s hurried letters from Headquarters of the Sanitary Commission no doubt gave the account of his arrival and his work as purser on the Daniel Webster, and as clerk in the Quartermaster\u2019s Department later. We have nothing left but an occasional mention of letters as received. Aunt E. among others says, \u201c Charley\u2019s long, interesting letter reached us to-day,\u201d and in a letter of F. L. Olmsted\u2019s to the Rev. Dr. Bellows his name occurs in this paragraph:\u2013<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Off Yorktown, May 15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Frederick-Law-Olmstead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-106962 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Frederick-Law-Olmstead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>. . . It is now midnight. Knapp and two supply boats started five hours ago for the sick at Bigelow\u2019s Landing. Two of the ladies are with him; the rest are giving beef tea and brandy and water to the sick on the Knickerbocker, who have been put into clean beds. Drs. Ware and Swan are in attendance, aided most efficiently by Wheelock and Haight. Mr. Collins is executive officer on the boat, and <em>Mr. Woolsey, clerk<\/em>, taking charge of the effects of the soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-109012 alignleft\" title=\"Katharine Prescott Wormeley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Katharine-Prescott-Wormeley.jpg\" alt=\"Katharine Prescott Wormeley\" width=\"154\" height=\"195\" \/>And later from Miss Wormeley:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all take the greatest interest in Charley\u2019s letter. He writes well, just what he sees and thinks about and throws genuine light on other accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charley\u2019s hurried letters from Headquarters of the Sanitary Commission no doubt gave the account of his arrival and his work as purser on the Daniel Webster, and as clerk in the Quartermaster\u2019s Department later. We have nothing left but an occasional mention of letters as received. Aunt E. among others says, \u201c Charley\u2019s long, interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"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-14546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546","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=14546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}