{"id":2484,"date":"2023-04-29T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/2484"},"modified":"2020-01-24T19:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T00:36:51","slug":"head-of-the-cotton-card-swindlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/head-of-the-cotton-card-swindlers\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">April 29, 1863, <em>Arkansas<\/em><em> True Democrat (Little Rock)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>We learn that Curtis, the chief or head of the cotton card swindlers, was met by Mr. S. Wilson, the sutler of&nbsp; Col. Glenn&#8217;s regiment, some few miles this side of Memphis.&nbsp; Wilson brought him part of the way, but when within twenty miles of Little Rock, Curtis succeeded in effecting his escape.&nbsp; We learn further, that Curtis gave up thirty-one or two thousand dollars in Confederate money and about eight in gold, which, we suppose, will be divided among his victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 29, 1863, Arkansas True Democrat (Little Rock) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We learn that Curtis, the chief or head of the cotton card swindlers, was met by Mr. S. Wilson, the sutler of&nbsp; Col. Glenn&#8217;s regiment, some few miles this side of Memphis.&nbsp; Wilson brought him part of the way, but when within twenty miles of Little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84472,"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-2484","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\/Arkansas-True-Democrat.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","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=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}