{"id":3461,"date":"2023-06-10T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/archives\/3461"},"modified":"2020-01-27T03:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:42:19","slug":"a-noble-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-noble-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">June 10, 1863, <em>Montgomery<\/em><em> Weekly Advertiser<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  <\/em>We have before us a letter written by a lady of this State to her husband, who is now in prison for the grave offense of taking up arms against his own State.&nbsp;  This noble woman writes in the kindest spirit, giving the health of the family and connexion, and says she hopes her letter may find him well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  <\/em>She writes:&nbsp;  &#8220;I have received your letter this minute and am glad to hear that you are well, but I am sorry of the way you have done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  <\/em>&#8220;All of my brothers are in the southern army.&nbsp;  Ma says you ought to be ashamed of the way you have acted\u2013you have been fighting against your wife and children, and Pa and Ma and sisters, and your country.&nbsp;  I want to know whether you intend to join the Southern army or not.&nbsp;  If you want to live with me and the children any more you must join the Southern army, for I never intend to go to the North.&nbsp;  _____ is very smart, she is now carding\u2013she says she don&#8217;t want the Yankees to get her.&nbsp;  The babe is growing very fast and can walk.&nbsp;  I must say my home is in the South, and in the South I intend to stay.&nbsp;  Write soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: right;\" align=\"right\">I remain your wife till death,<br \/>\n__________\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;  <\/em>[Atlanta Confederacy.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 10, 1863, Montgomery Weekly Advertiser &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We have before us a letter written by a lady of this State to her husband, who is now in prison for the grave offense of taking up arms against his own State.&nbsp; This noble woman writes in [&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-3461","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\/3461","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=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/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=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}