{"id":68369,"date":"2021-10-25T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=68369"},"modified":"2021-09-24T02:30:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T07:30:19","slug":"first-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/first-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"First Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exit78\/27851369675\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7351\/27851369675_e7a7bef54b_b.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<p><strong>First Charge of Fremont&#8217;s Bodyguard, Led by Major Zagonyi, on the Confederate Garrison at Springfield, Mo., October 25th, 1861<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(from Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated History of the Civil War&#8230;, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While encamped at Pomme de Terre, Mo., Fremont learned that a Confederate force had just been established at Springfield. He at once ordered Major Zagonyi to take his cavalry on a reconnoissance, and to capture the camp if deemed practicable. When Zagonyi arrived near Springfield he learned that the Confederate force was nearly 2,000 strong, while he had but 150 men. &#8216;Notwithstanding this disparity he made a gallant charge into the enemy&#8217;s ranks in the face of a hailstorm of bullets. He succeeded in, forcing the Confederates to break away in wild disorder, thus making the first charge of the bodyguard a great success.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Charge of Fremont&#8217;s Bodyguard, Led by Major Zagonyi, on the Confederate Garrison at Springfield, Mo., October 25th, 1861 (from Frank Leslie&#8217;s Illustrated History of the Civil War&#8230;, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895) &#8220;While encamped at Pomme de Terre, Mo., Fremont learned that a Confederate force had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-frank-leslies-illustrated-newspaper"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68369","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=68369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}