{"id":3446,"date":"2023-06-24T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/3446"},"modified":"2020-02-02T23:26:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T04:26:42","slug":"harvesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/harvesting\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">June 24, 1863, <em>Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>Within the limits of a single civil district in Franklin county, there are twenty-five families whose hands are &#8220;off in the wars.&#8221;&nbsp; These good wives and children found themselves at the beginning of the present harvest without the means of gathering the coming crop.&nbsp; Some were poor, some were sick and all were unused to field labor.&nbsp; The spring days were on and the warm suns shone, &#8220;the showers of rain did fall,&#8221; and the ripening grain made the air breezy with its plaints for the sickle and the reaper.&nbsp; Now what did the Good Lord send to aid the families of the brave soldiers thus left alone?&nbsp; He sent the women and the children of all the surrounding country.&nbsp; Ladies who never before exposed themselves to the rays of the mid-day heat, went boldly out among the sheaves and cut, and bound and stacked; and girls and boys, accustomed rather to school books and play than toil in the fields, lent the vigor of little hands but stout hearts, to this labor of love; and in no great while these twenty-five families rejoiced in a gathered harvest, full and secure, with its plentiful hope for the future year.&nbsp; Men, women and children all over the land &#8220;go ye and do likewise.&#8221;\u2013Chattanooga Rebel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 24, 1863, Menphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Ga) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Within the limits of a single civil district in Franklin county, there are twenty-five families whose hands are &#8220;off in the wars.&#8221;&nbsp; These good wives and children found themselves at the beginning of the present harvest without the means of gathering the coming crop.&nbsp; Some were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":85606,"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-3446","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\/2007\/04\/The-Memphis-Daily-Appeal.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","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=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}