{"id":3396,"date":"2023-06-10T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/3396"},"modified":"2020-01-27T03:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:43:01","slug":"confederate-corks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/confederate-corks\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">June 10, 1863, <em>Southern Banner<\/em> (Athens, Georgia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rev. H. B. Pratt Chaplain of the Sixty-third North Carolina, writes to the N. C. Presbyterian:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  Allow me to make another suggestion.\u2013Down in these swamp lands of Eastern North Carolina, we find an innumerable multitude of what are called &#8220;cypress knees.&#8221;&nbsp;  They come up like little tumuli from the swampy, miry earth, and are of rather a pithy nature.&nbsp;  If some enterprising workman would cut these up by a circular saw, into blocks of a convenient size, and by an easily contrived knife, give them a proper shape, he could make a small fortune, as well as confer a benefit on the public, by supplying the country with &#8220;Confederate corks.&#8221;&nbsp;  Black gum root, well dried, is better still, and both cuts and takes shape better than cork itself.&nbsp;  A drop of warm cement, (1 part wax or tallow and 2 of rosin,) on the top of these corks would make them equal to the best made in Sparta or Portugal, and infinitely superior to the miserable article we commonly see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 10, 1863, Southern Banner (Athens, Georgia) Rev. H. B. Pratt Chaplain of the Sixty-third North Carolina, writes to the N. C. Presbyterian: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Allow me to make another suggestion.\u2013Down in these swamp lands of Eastern North Carolina, we find an innumerable multitude of what [&hellip;]<\/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-3396","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\/3396","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=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/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=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}