{"id":3427,"date":"2023-06-22T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/3427"},"modified":"2020-02-02T22:42:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T03:42:22","slug":"good-for-the-little-patriot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/good-for-the-little-patriot\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">June 22, 1863, <em>Tri-Weekly Telegraph <\/em>(Houston, Texas)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>The following letter shows what sort of stuff some of our boys are made of.&nbsp; Good for the little patriot.&nbsp; His example is worthy of imitation by children of larger growth:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\">Iron Stone House, Two Miles Above Sutherland&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br \/>\nSprings, Wilson County, Texas, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br \/>\nJune 9<sup>th<\/sup>, 1863.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>General Baylor:&nbsp; I am not quite thirteen years old, so I cannot join your company to &#8220;still hunt Yankees,&#8221; though I have a very good young horse, suitable for the service, which I wish to present to you, or through you to some true Southern soldier in your command.&nbsp; I feel very unwilling to part with my favorite, except to assist in driving the hated Yankees from our land.&nbsp; Can I aid a mite in doing this, I will be repaid a thousand times for a horse, that has been my pride and pleasure a long while. &nbsp;Please call the horse &#8220;Gus.&#8221;&nbsp; Send here to my father&#8217;s place for him, when he is wanted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\">Augustus Weyman Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 22, 1863, Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Texas) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The following letter shows what sort of stuff some of our boys are made of.&nbsp; Good for the little patriot.&nbsp; His example is worthy of imitation by children of larger growth: Iron Stone House, Two Miles Above Sutherland&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; } Springs, Wilson County, Texas, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; } June 9th, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":70117,"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-3427","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\/2016\/11\/houston-triweekly-telegraph.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","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=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}