{"id":114960,"date":"2021-10-03T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=114960"},"modified":"2021-10-03T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T19:11:05","slug":"we-owned-the-whole-plantation-of-that-old-rebel-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/we-owned-the-whole-plantation-of-that-old-rebel-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;we owned the whole plantation of that old rebel Peters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 3.\u2014Left the picket line again, returned to Camp Jackson, started for Darnestown by six o\u2019clock, and arrived there by eight o\u2019clock P. M. Thus ended our stay at Seneca Mills, the most pleasant period of our three years service. Vegetables and fruit, chickens and pigs, were plenty, for we owned the whole plantation of that old rebel Peters, who was sent to Fort Lafayette for treason. The Thirty-fourth New York, having the picket line on the river, always proved good companions. The view of the surrounding country is really imposing, including Sugar Loaf Mountain, the natural observatory of the signal corps. Some remarkable items must not be forgotten\u2014for instance, novel songs of \u201cThe Nice Legs;\u201d \u201cJimmy Nutt\u2019s Measuring the Guard Time by the Moon;\u201d \u201cGriffn\u2019s Apple Sauce,\u201d and \u201cDoughnuts for Horses.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 3.\u2014Left the picket line again, returned to Camp Jackson, started for Darnestown by six o\u2019clock, and arrived there by eight o\u2019clock P. M. Thus ended our stay at Seneca Mills, the most pleasant period of our three years service. Vegetables and fruit, chickens and pigs, were plenty, for we owned the whole plantation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":107934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-114960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diary-of-battery-a-first-regiment-rhode-island-light-artillery-by-theodore-reichardt"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/James-Rifle-e1622902139898.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114960","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=114960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}