{"id":70005,"date":"2026-11-08T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=70005"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:41:52","slug":"events-of-the-day-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/events-of-the-day-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Events of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 1861<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battle of Belmont, Mo., between the expedition under Grant and the rebels. The Union men retired before large rebel reinforcements from Columbus, Ky., their retreat being covered by the gun-boats. Great slaughter on both sides ; Union loss\u2013killed 84, wounded 288, and missing and prisoners 235\u2013total 607; rebel loss\u2013killed 261, wounded 427, and prisoners 278\u2013total 966.<\/li>\n<li>Rebels captured 120 Union troops at Little Santa Fe, Mo.<\/li>\n<li>Capture of the rebel commissioners Slidell and Mason on the British mail steamer \u201cTrent\u201d by the U. S. war sloop \u201d San Jacinto.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Com. DuPont, of the naval expedition, sent a force up Port Royal Harbor to examine the town of Beaufort; the place was found to be deserted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 8, 1861 Battle of Belmont, Mo., between the expedition under Grant and the rebels. The Union men retired before large rebel reinforcements from Columbus, Ky., their retreat being covered by the gun-boats. Great slaughter on both sides ; Union loss\u2013killed 84, wounded 288, and missing and prisoners 235\u2013total 607; rebel loss\u2013killed 261, wounded 427, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":69972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-civil-war-day-by-day"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A-Chronological-History-of-the-Civil-War-in-America.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70005","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=70005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122624,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70005\/revisions\/122624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}