{"id":24654,"date":"2024-02-17T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=24654"},"modified":"2021-07-27T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T00:33:06","slug":"a-diary-from-dixie-177","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-diary-from-dixie-177\/","title":{"rendered":"A Diary From Dixie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>February 17th.<\/i>\u2013Found everything in Main Street twenty per cent dearer. They say it is due to the new currency bill.<\/p>\n<p>I asked my husband: &#8220;Is General Johnston ordered to reenforce Polk? They said he did not understand the order.&#8221; &#8220;After five days&#8217; delay,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;They say Sherman is marching to Mobile.<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Mikes\/Documents\/Civil War documents from plain text\/#_ftn1_6637\" name=\"_ftnref1_6637\">[1]<\/a> When they once get inside of our armies what is to molest them, unless it be women with broomsticks?&#8221; General Johnston writes that &#8220;the Governor of Georgia refuses him provisions and the use of his roads.\u201d The Governor of Georgia writes: \u201cThe roads are open to him and in capital condition. I have furnished him abundantly with provisions from time to time, as he desired them.&#8221; I suppose both of these letters are placed away side by side in our archives.<\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Mikes\/Documents\/Civil War documents from plain text\/#_ftnref1_6637\" name=\"_ftn1_6637\">[1]<\/a> General Polk, commanding about 24,000 men scattered throughout Mississippi and Alabama, found it impossible to check the advance of Sherman at the head of some 40,000, and moved from Meridian south to protect Mobile. February 16, 1864, Sherman took possession of Meridian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 17th.\u2013Found everything in Main Street twenty per cent dearer. They say it is due to the new currency bill. I asked my husband: &#8220;Is General Johnston ordered to reenforce Polk? They said he did not understand the order.&#8221; &#8220;After five days&#8217; delay,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;They say Sherman is marching to Mobile.[1] When they once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":93830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-diary-from-dixie-by-mary-boykin-miller-chesnut"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/chesnut_mary-264x300-1-e1617288767771.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24654","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=24654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}