{"id":31530,"date":"2023-10-04T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2021-07-24T13:57:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T18:57:35","slug":"charles-wright-wills-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/charles-wright-wills-140\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA neighbor told me that old Worthington sold the mother of his children, and with her five other\u2026\u201d\u2013Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">October 4, 1863.<\/p>\n<p>Have been over to Worthington&#8217;s again to-day. Sam got out his hounds and started a deer for us. We stationed ourselves in the runway, but although the deer came near us two or three times in his circling, the dogs didn&#8217;t push him hard enough to make him break for distant cover. The major killed a very large snake and some of the boys got a shot at an alligator. We then left the bayou and went out to old River Lake, where we got some splendid shooting. I killed a water turkey at 500 yards, shooting into a flock. Our guns, the Henry rifle, threw bullets full a mile and one-half. I found that I could do tolerably close shooting, something I never suspicioned before. A neighbor told me that old Worthington sold the mother of his children, and with her five other picaninnies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 4, 1863. Have been over to Worthington&#8217;s again to-day. Sam got out his hounds and started a deer for us. We stationed ourselves in the runway, but although the deer came near us two or three times in his circling, the dogs didn&#8217;t push him hard enough to make him break for distant cover. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-civil-war-day-by-day"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Charles-Wright-Wills.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31530","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=31530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}