{"id":6950,"date":"2022-03-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=6950"},"modified":"2021-10-05T19:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T00:49:56","slug":"david-l-day-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/david-l-day-52\/","title":{"rendered":"On A Shoal.\u2013Diary of David L. Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>On A Shoal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 11. This morning the clink of the windlass is again heard from all the boats hoisting their anchors. We steam out of Croatan into Pamlico sound; so here we go for new conquests.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The Burnside expedition, it did not end in smoke:<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">It captured Elizabeth City, and the isle of Roanoke.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>About 11 a. m., the New York went onto a shoal and came to a dead halt. Here was a pretty fix, stuck right in the middle of Pamlico sound. We had the schooner Skirmisher in tow, with companies K and I aboard, but they thought they would leave us and go it alone. Accordingly they hauled in their hawser, hoisted sail and left us, sailing with a fair breeze gallantly down the sound. Three large steamers hitched on to us, to pull us off. After a good deal of hard work, lots of swearing and breaking hawsers, they finally succeeded, about 4 p. m., in hauling us off. We again started and dropped anchor at Hatteras inlet at 10 p. m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On A Shoal. March 11. This morning the clink of the windlass is again heard from all the boats hoisting their anchors. We steam out of Croatan into Pamlico sound; so here we go for new conquests. The Burnside expedition, it did not end in smoke: It captured Elizabeth City, and the isle of Roanoke. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":94000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-david-l-day-my-diary-of-rambles-with-the-25th-mass"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/day_david_l-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950","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=6950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}