{"id":3894,"date":"2021-04-11T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2021-04-06T00:12:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T05:12:34","slug":"latest-by-telegraph-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/latest-by-telegraph-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest by Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"
April 11, 1861; The Charleston Mercury<\/em><\/div>\n
WASHINGTON, April 10.\u2014The alarm of the Abolitionists at the bare idea of a demonstration by the Southrons against Washington begins to be perfectly ludicrous.<\/span><\/div>\n
General orders have this day been issued by the War Department, forming a new military regiment out of the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland.<\/span><\/div>\n
Colonel CHARLES FERGUSON SMITH, of Pennsylvania, is appointed Commandant, and Brevet Captain THEODORE TALBOT (late of Fort Sumter), whose family reside here, has been made Adjutant of the new Department.
\nThe large force of regulars now quartered here is to be increased, instead of diminished. Captain SHERMAN’S company of Light Artillery and two companies of Federal Cavalry are expected here tomorrow. The Cavalry will purchase their horses here.<\/span><\/div>\n
It is evident that a standing army is to overawe Maryland and Virginia, while the attempt is being made to subjugate the confederate States. Nor are the precautions confined to the concentration of regular troops.
\nAll the volunteer companies were to-day called from their homes and mustered into service. They are at their respective armories; but, at the earliest moment they will be provided with quarters and rations by the Government.<\/span><\/div>\n
Everything is unsettled here, and the citizens look very blue.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 11, 1861; The Charleston Mercury WASHINGTON, April 10.\u2014The alarm of the Abolitionists at the bare idea of a demonstration by the Southrons against Washington begins to be perfectly ludicrous. General orders have this day been issued by the War Department, forming a new military regiment out of the District of Columbia and the State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":85332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-civil-war"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/charleston-Mercury.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894","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=3894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}