{"id":2477,"date":"2023-04-26T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/2477"},"modified":"2020-01-24T15:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T20:48:47","slug":"the-soldiers-dream-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-soldiers-dream-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 26, 1863, Peoria<\/em> Morning Mail <\/em>(Illinois)<\/p>\n

You have put the children to bed, Alice\u2013
\n            <\/em>Maude, and Willie, and Rose,
\nThey have lisped their sweet “Our Father,”
\n            <\/em>And sunk to their night’s repose.
\nDid they think of me, dear Alice?
\n            <\/em>Did they think of me and say,
\n“God bless him, and God bless him,
\n            <\/em>Dear father, far away!”<\/p>\n

O, my very heart grows sick, Alice,
\n            <\/em>I long so to behold
\nRose, with her pure white forehead,
\n            <\/em>And Maud with her curls of gold;
\nAnd Willie, so gay and sprightly,
\n            <\/em>So merry and full of glee\u2013
\nO, my heart yearns to enfold ye,
\n            <\/em>My smiling group of three.<\/p>\n

I can bear the noisy day, Alice\u2013
\n            <\/em>The camp life, gay and wild,
\nShuts from my yearning bosom
\n            <\/em>The thoughts of wife and child.
\nBut when the night is round me,
\n            <\/em>And under its strong beams,
\nI gather my cloak about me,
\n            <\/em>I dream such long, sad dreams! <\/p>\n

I think of a pale, young wife, Alice,
\n            <\/em>Who looked up in my face
\nWhen the drum beat at evening
\n            <\/em>And called me to my place.
\nI think of thee, sweet birdlings,
\n            <\/em>Left in the dear home-nest
\nAnd my soul is sick with longings
\n            <\/em>That will not be at rest.<\/p>\n

O, when will the war be over, Alice\u2013
\n            <\/em>O, when shall I behold
\nRose, with her pure white forehead,
\n            <\/em>And Maud, with her curls of gold;
\nAnd Will, so gay and sprightly,
\n            <\/em>So merry and full of glee,
\nAnd more than all, the dear wife
\n            <\/em>Who bore my babes to me!<\/p>\n

God guard and keep you all, Alice;
\n            <\/em>God guard and keep me, too;
\nFor if only one were missing,
\n            <\/em>What would the others do?
\nO, when will the war be over,
\n            <\/em>And when shall I behold
\nWhose whom I love so dearly,
\n            <\/em>Safe in the dear home-fold?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 26, 1863, Peoria Morning Mail (Illinois) You have put the children to bed, Alice\u2013             Maude, and Willie, and Rose, They have lisped their sweet “Our Father,”             And sunk to their night’s repose. Did they think of me, dear Alice?             Did they think of me and say, “God bless him, and God […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477","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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}