{"id":68961,"date":"2021-07-17T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=68961"},"modified":"2021-07-14T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T03:00:00","slug":"the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis-53\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battallion is saddled and ready to move West as ordered."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\">[Copy]<br \/>\nHead Quarters Camp of Instruction<br \/>\nBenton Barracks Oct 17th 1861<\/p>\n<p>Captain<\/p>\n<p>The street order from the Commanding Genl Fremont, sending back my patrolls, which with much trouble I had found means to equip, was, in the face of surrounding circumstances, more than a surprise, but your explanation <i>to me<\/i> of the pendency of an order for the regiment, will prevent further notice of the matter at present.<\/p>\n<p>Of course direct orders to Pickets Patroll &amp; Batteries, not only superscede my command but confound it and dis-parage me. But the enemy is in front ; let it pass. The Battallion is saddled and ready to move West as ordered.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Very Respectfully<br \/>\nS R Curtis<br \/>\nBrig Gen&#8217;l Comdg Post<\/p>\n<p>To Capt. Chauncey McKeever<sup>1<\/sup><br \/>\nA A G St. Louis Mo.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>1. Chauncey McKeever, U. S. Military Academy, 1849, was brvt capt. and asst. adjt. gen. July 1861, on Fremont&#8217;s staff; he rose to maj. and lt. col. a. a. g. assigned. 1862.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Copy] Head Quarters Camp of Instruction Benton Barracks Oct 17th 1861 Captain The street order from the Commanding Genl Fremont, sending back my patrolls, which with much trouble I had found means to equip, was, in the face of surrounding circumstances, more than a surprise, but your explanation to me of the pendency of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-letters-of-samuel-ryan-curtis"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Samuel-Ryan-Curtis..jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68961","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=68961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}