{"id":90157,"date":"2021-03-04T01:14:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T06:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=90157"},"modified":"2021-01-01T08:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T14:29:30","slug":"two-colts-from-col-colt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/two-colts-from-col-colt\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Colts from Col. Colt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>John A. Cobb to Howell Cobb. E.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Macon [Ga.], March 4th, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Father, &#8230; A package came by express today from Washington containing two presents from Col. Colt (the revolver man) one [for] Mother and one for you. Yours is a large horseman&#8217;s pistol (revolver) in a fine case.<\/p>\n<p>Mother&#8217;s is a book. On the back it has &#8220;Colt on the Constitution, Higher Law and Irrepressible Conflict&#8221; &#8220;Dedicated by the Author to Mrs Howell Cobb.&#8221; On the inside it is a pistol case containing a fine ivory handle revolver and in the handle is engraved &#8220;To Mrs. Howell Cobb from Col. Colt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>From <em>Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1911<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John A. Cobb to Howell Cobb. E. Macon [Ga.], March 4th, 1861. Dear Father, &#8230; A package came by express today from Washington containing two presents from Col. Colt (the revolver man) one [for] Mother and one for you. Yours is a large horseman&#8217;s pistol (revolver) in a fine case. Mother&#8217;s is a book. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":90158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-misc"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/John-A-Cobb.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90157","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=90157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}