{"id":15407,"date":"2022-11-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13087"},"modified":"2021-07-31T01:25:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T06:25:43","slug":"journal-of-surgeon-alfred-l-castleman-248","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/journal-of-surgeon-alfred-l-castleman-248\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal of Surgeon Alfred L. Castleman."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Sunday, 16th.<\/i>\u2013What a Sunday! What a day of rest! Troops were called at 5 A. M. Carried heavy knapsacks, guns and ammunition, and march till 9 1-2 P. M.; sixteen and a half hours, and no enemy near! Truly, &#8220;Old Burney&#8221; begins vigorously; but, if this is an earnest that he means business, let him push on. His men will not complain.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I got up sick, with a painful diarrh\u00c5\u201ca. Have been feeble all day, and as 9 o&#8217;clock came, with its cold and piercing winds sighing through the pines and over the hills, how longingly I looked for that &#8220;little candle,&#8221; which in times of peace was wont to &#8220;throw its beams so far&#8221; to greet me on my return to home, after a long night&#8217;s ride! How I yearned, in lonely thoughts, amidst this crowd, for the cheerful scenes and comforts which had often welcomed me on such a night. When shall I enjoy them again? When will this thirst for blood, and unholy struggle for power, yield to the love of peace and happiness at home? We passed Cattlett&#8217;s Station in our march to-day, and encamped for the night near Weaversville, with orders to continue our march at 6 o&#8217;clock to-morrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, 16th.\u2013What a Sunday! What a day of rest! Troops were called at 5 A. M. Carried heavy knapsacks, guns and ammunition, and march till 9 1-2 P. M.; sixteen and a half hours, and no enemy near! Truly, &#8220;Old Burney&#8221; begins vigorously; but, if this is an earnest that he means business, let him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-journal-of-surgeon-alfred-l-castleman"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Alfred-L.-Castleman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407","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=15407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}