{"id":3740,"date":"2023-07-01T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3740"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:00:44","slug":"the-fellow-needed-only-a-sawmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-fellow-needed-only-a-sawmill\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">July 1, 1863, <em>Dallas<\/em><em> Herald<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>A gentleman of a Virginia regiment, writing to his mother, gives the following account of the adventure he had in one of the recent battles.&nbsp; We copy from the Examiner:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/em>I must tell you of a prisoner that I captured.&nbsp; I spied the villain in the road and put after him.&nbsp; He dismounted, and leaving his horse in the road, took to the woods on foot.&nbsp; As the limbs of the cedars impeded my progress, I, for a time, lost sight of him.&nbsp; But having secured his horse and effects, I followed in the direction in which he had disappeared.&nbsp; As I rode under a tall pine, with the muzzle of my gun elevated, I was astonished to hear from the tree above my head sing out:&nbsp; &#8220;Don&#8217;t shoot; I surrender.&#8221;&nbsp; The scoundrel saw the glittering of my gunbarrel and thought I was aiming at him.&nbsp; I pretty soon got him down and carried him to the rear, having first secured his personal effects, which consisted of a saddle and halter, a canteen of milk, six pounds of bacon, two pounds of coffee, ditto sugar, one pound of butter, a cap, one frying pan, one spade, a piece of soap, a currycomb and brush, one oil cloth, two blankets, a small tent, and a half bushel of corn and oats\u2013the fellow needed only a sawmill to be fully equipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 1, 1863, Dallas Herald &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A gentleman of a Virginia regiment, writing to his mother, gives the following account of the adventure he had in one of the recent battles.&nbsp; We copy from the Examiner: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I must tell you of a prisoner that I captured.&nbsp; I spied the villain in the road and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":69611,"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-3740","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\/09\/Dallas-Herald.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","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=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}