{"id":7996,"date":"2022-05-25T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2022-08-29T20:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:34:06","slug":"robert-m-magillpersonal-reminiscences-of-a-confederate-soldier-boy-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/robert-m-magillpersonal-reminiscences-of-a-confederate-soldier-boy-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert M. McGill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, Friday, 22d-25th.\u2014Had to go on picket, away out in the mountains; thought it pretty doleful-looking place. Being on post at about 2 A. M. Something appeared; looking through brush, that looked like fire, so we whispered to each other: &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that fire?&#8221; All thought it was; then the question arose, who can it be making up a fire at this time of night, away out here in the mountains, and the answer came readily: &#8220;Yankees or Bushwhackers.&#8221; We were about getting ready to send and notify our officer of the guard, and the reserve, of our discovery, when a cloud that had rather obscured our vision, floated gracefully away, and the moon shined forth in resplendant beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Reported some time during the night of the 24th that the Federals are crossing at Wheeler&#8217;s Gap, six miles below here. Started at daylight and marched down there. Nobody here to disturb our peace.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, 25th.\u2014Heard good sermon to-day, 2 p. M.; ordered back to Big Creek Gap.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>(Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, Friday, 22d-25th.\u2014Had to go on picket, away out in the mountains; thought it pretty doleful-looking place. Being on post at about 2 A. M. Something appeared; looking through brush, that looked like fire, so we whispered to each other: &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that fire?&#8221; All thought it was; then the question arose, who can it be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":94252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-robert-m-magill"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Unknown-solder-used-for-Robert-McGill.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","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=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117228,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions\/117228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}