{"id":2065,"date":"2021-03-11T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/2065"},"modified":"2021-03-07T13:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:27:37","slug":"the-southern-flag-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-southern-flag-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Southern Flag in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 11, 1861; <em>The Charleston Mercury<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A large crowd assembled on Friday evening, in 17th street, opposite the old Market, headed by SMITH\u2019S band. They pulled down stars and stripes&#8221; and run up in place of it the secession flag to the music of the Marseilles Hymn. Speeches were made and great enthusiasm manifested. On the same evening a large and beautiful Southern rights flag was hoisted in the streets of Petersburg. It is adorned with seven large blue stars, leaving a blank in the centre for Virginia, which, it is expected, will soon take her place in the Southern Confederacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 11, 1861; The Charleston Mercury A large crowd assembled on Friday evening, in 17th street, opposite the old Market, headed by SMITH\u2019S band. They pulled down stars and stripes&#8221; and run up in place of it the secession flag to the music of the Marseilles Hymn. Speeches were made and great enthusiasm manifested. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":85332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charleston-Mercury.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","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=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}