{"id":115565,"date":"2021-10-21T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=115565"},"modified":"2021-10-03T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T20:35:47","slug":"balls-bluff-rhode-island-light-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/balls-bluff-rhode-island-light-artillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball&#8217;s Bluff\u2014Rhode Island Light Artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Monday, October<\/em> 21.\u2014Battle of Ball&#8217;s Bluff, Gen. Stone crossed the Potomac near Conrad&#8217;s Ferry, across Harrison&#8217;s Island, with Col. Baker&#8217;s brigade, this morning. (Forty-second New York, Fifteenth and Twentieth Massachusetts Regiments, and a piece of artillery, of Capt. Vaughan&#8217;s battery. The rest of the battery stayed on Harrison Island.&#8221;) By seven o&#8217;clock in the evening, the whole division of Gen. Banks left Darnestown, going to Edwards Ferry. Our battery started about nine o&#8217;clock. Arriving at Poolesville, we heard of the disastrous result. Our troops had withdrawn from Ball&#8217;s Bluff. Col. Baker&#8217;s corpse was brought into town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, October 21.\u2014Battle of Ball&#8217;s Bluff, Gen. Stone crossed the Potomac near Conrad&#8217;s Ferry, across Harrison&#8217;s Island, with Col. Baker&#8217;s brigade, this morning. (Forty-second New York, Fifteenth and Twentieth Massachusetts Regiments, and a piece of artillery, of Capt. Vaughan&#8217;s battery. The rest of the battery stayed on Harrison Island.&#8221;) By seven o&#8217;clock in the evening, [&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-115565","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\/115565","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=115565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115565\/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=115565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}