{"id":28371,"date":"2024-10-05T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=28371"},"modified":"2021-07-23T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:03:23","slug":"rebel-war-clerk-1221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rebel-war-clerk-1221\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rebel War Clerk&rsquo;s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 5th.\u2013Bright, and very warm.<\/p>\n<p>There is a report that Gen. Hood&#8217;s army is at Marietta, in Sherman&#8217;s rear, and it may be so.<\/p>\n<p>One of the clerks (Mr. Bechtel) was killed yesterday by one of the enemy&#8217;s sharpshooters at Chaffin&#8217;s Farm. He was standing on the parapet, looking in the direction of the enemy&#8217;s pickets. He had been warned to no purpose. He leaves a wife and nine children. A subscription is handed round, and several thousand dollars will be raised. Gen. R. E. Lee was standing near when he fell.<\/p>\n<p>All is quiet to-day. But they are impressing the negro men found in the streets to-day to work on the fortifications. It is again rumored that Petersburg is to be given up. I don&#8217;t believe it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 5th.\u2013Bright, and very warm. There is a report that Gen. Hood&#8217;s army is at Marietta, in Sherman&#8217;s rear, and it may be so. One of the clerks (Mr. Bechtel) was killed yesterday by one of the enemy&#8217;s sharpshooters at Chaffin&#8217;s Farm. He was standing on the parapet, looking in the direction of the enemy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":88021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-rebel-war-clerks-diary-at-the-confederate-states-capital-by-john-beauchamp-jones"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/John-Beauchamp-Jones.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28371","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=28371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}