{"id":8025,"date":"2022-08-09T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2022-08-29T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T01:35:10","slug":"robert-m-magillpersonal-reminiscences-of-a-confederate-soldier-boy-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/robert-m-magillpersonal-reminiscences-of-a-confederate-soldier-boy-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert M. McGill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, 9th.\u2014Moved a quarter of a mile to good water. Drew two months&#8217; wages to-day, $22.00. Remaining here until the 13th, had some time for letter-writing. Some letter paper and envelopes had been captured in the fight; I got hold of some of it; the envelopes were pretty small, but on the left-hand corner was printed &#8220;The Girl I Left Behind Me;&#8221; so I proceeded to write to one I had left behind me and I wrote so much that when I got it into that small envelope it looked about as full as a &#8220;stuffed toad;&#8221; I got a very nice answer to that letter, but it wasn&#8217;t very long until the girl married an old bachelor. A lady told me after the war was over, that she read that letter. No doubt she enjoyed reading it for it was a &#8220;goodun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>(Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, 9th.\u2014Moved a quarter of a mile to good water. Drew two months&#8217; wages to-day, $22.00. Remaining here until the 13th, had some time for letter-writing. Some letter paper and envelopes had been captured in the fight; I got hold of some of it; the envelopes were pretty small, but on the left-hand corner was [&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-8025","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\/8025","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=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117257,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions\/117257"}],"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=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}