{"id":21362,"date":"2023-05-03T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2021-08-04T08:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T13:27:37","slug":"elisha-franklin-paxton-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/elisha-franklin-paxton-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram from R.E. Lee on the death of General Elisha Franklin Paxton."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>May 3,1863. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The enemy was dislodged from all his positions around Chancellorsville and driven back towards the Rappahannock, over which he is now retreating. We have to thank Almighty God for a great victory. I regret to state that Gen&#8217;l <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14940 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/elisha-f-paxton-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"elisha f paxton\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" \/>Paxton was killed, Gen&#8217;l Jackson severely and Gen&#8217;l Heath and D. H. Hill slightly wounded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Signed) R. E. Lee,<br \/>\nGen&#8217;l Commdg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram May 3,1863. The enemy was dislodged from all his positions around Chancellorsville and driven back towards the Rappahannock, over which he is now retreating. We have to thank Almighty God for a great victory. I regret to state that Gen&#8217;l Paxton was killed, Gen&#8217;l Jackson severely and Gen&#8217;l Heath and D. H. Hill slightly [&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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-elisha-franklin-paxton-letters-from-camp-and-field-while-an-officer-in-the-confederate-army"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362","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=21362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}