{"id":10674,"date":"2024-07-08T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2021-07-23T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T20:48:25","slug":"rebel-war-clerk-1132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rebel-war-clerk-1132\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rebel War Clerk\u2019s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 8th.\u2014Clear; hot and dusty.<\/p>\n<p>The news of the falling back of Gen. Johnston on Atlanta, Ga., causes no uneasiness, for the destruction of Sherman&#8217;s army is deemed the more certain the farther he penetrates.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing of interest from Petersburg, but there are rumors of demoralization and disaffection in Grant&#8217;s army. His men suffer for water.<\/p>\n<p>Still we get no letters from the South, beyond the point on the Danville Railroad reached by the raiders, who tore up 18 miles of the track.<\/p>\n<p>We have nothing definite from Early&#8217;s column yet, but no doubt there is alarm enough in Pennsylvania and in Washington City by this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 8th.\u2014Clear; hot and dusty. The news of the falling back of Gen. Johnston on Atlanta, Ga., causes no uneasiness, for the destruction of Sherman&#8217;s army is deemed the more certain the farther he penetrates. There is nothing of interest from Petersburg, but there are rumors of demoralization and disaffection in Grant&#8217;s army. His men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":88021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-civil-war-day-by-day"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/John-Beauchamp-Jones.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674","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=10674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}