{"id":106537,"date":"2021-05-21T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=106537"},"modified":"2021-05-18T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:10:12","slug":"important-from-harpers-ferry-condition-of-the-secession-troops-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/important-from-harpers-ferry-condition-of-the-secession-troops-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Important from Harper&#8217;s Ferry; Condition of the Secession Troops There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><br \/>\nMay 21, 1861<\/p>\n<p>FREDERICK, Sunday, May 19\u20149 P.M.<br \/>\nvia Chambersburgh, May 20.<\/p>\n<p>I have just returned from Harper&#8217;s Ferry. Two thousand Mississippians arrived there to-day. They are a hard-looking set, poorly clad and dirty. Two Regiments arrived from Alabama yesterday. They are of the same stamp.<\/p>\n<p>The small-pox has broken out among troops there.<\/p>\n<p>A Company of Cavalry left Harper&#8217;s Ferry for Martinsburgh, this morning, to watch and prevent Union men from voting on the 23d of this month, as this is a strong Union district.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Guards of Frederick City have arrested a man who was setting fire to a large tan-yard and barn. He was put in jail. The City is guarded by armed Union men; and all Secessionists are watched closely.<\/p>\n<p>The Union men of this district will nominate a candidate for Congress next Saturday. The nominee will be an unconditional Union man, against whom there will be no opposition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">C.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times May 21, 1861 FREDERICK, Sunday, May 19\u20149 P.M. via Chambersburgh, May 20. I have just returned from Harper&#8217;s Ferry. Two thousand Mississippians arrived there to-day. They are a hard-looking set, poorly clad and dirty. Two Regiments arrived from Alabama yesterday. They are of the same stamp. The small-pox has broken out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":92551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-106537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-New-York-Times.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}