{"id":92426,"date":"2025-06-07T01:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=92426"},"modified":"2021-07-25T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T12:58:35","slug":"alexander-g-downing-1389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/alexander-g-downing-1389\/","title":{"rendered":"Downing\u2019s Civil War Diary.\u2014Alexander G. Downing."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><i>Wednesday, 7th<\/i>\u2014The First Brigade of our division left at 5 o\u2019clock this morning for Louisville. Our brigade left camp at 3 o\u2019clock this afternoon and marched to the Baltimore &amp; Ohio station, where we boarded the cars. We were put on open coal cars, and there were so many to the car that we could not lie down and straighten out.<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Mikes\/Documents\/Civil War documents from plain text\/#_ftn1_7324\" name=\"_ftnref1_7324\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Mikes\/Documents\/Civil War documents from plain text\/#_ftn1_7324\" name=\"_ftnref1_7324\"><\/a><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Mikes\/Documents\/Civil War documents from plain text\/#_ftnref1_7324\" name=\"_ftn1_7324\">[1]<\/a> It was nothing short of disgraceful for the Government to treat the soldiers that way after the war. The War Department should have taken more time to move the soldiers from the city.\u2014A. G. D.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, 7th\u2014The First Brigade of our division left at 5 o\u2019clock this morning for Louisville. Our brigade left camp at 3 o\u2019clock this afternoon and marched to the Baltimore &amp; Ohio station, where we boarded the cars. We were put on open coal cars, and there were so many to the car that we could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":90905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-downings-civil-war-diary"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/downing-thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92426","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=92426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}