{"id":11673,"date":"2021-05-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2021-05-13T19:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T00:49:12","slug":"into-the-service-for-the-war-rutherford-b-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/into-the-service-for-the-war-rutherford-b-hayes\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the service for the war\u2014Rutherford B. Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 358px; float: right; margin-left: 25px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/image1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/image_thumb1.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"358\" height=\"256\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The last diary page of Rutherford B. Hayes before he entered the Union Army for the War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>May 15, 1861.<\/em>\u2013Judge Matthews and I have agreed to go into the service for the war,\u2013if possible into the same regiment. I spoke my feelings to him, which he said were his also, viz., that this was a just and necessary war and that it demanded the whole power of the country;<em> that I would prefer to go into it if I knew I was to die or be killed in the course of it, than to live through and after it without taking any part in it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last diary page of Rutherford B. Hayes before he entered the Union Army for the War. May 15, 1861.\u2013Judge Matthews and I have agreed to go into the service for the war,\u2013if possible into the same regiment. I spoke my feelings to him, which he said were his also, viz., that this was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-diary-and-letters-of-rutherford-birchard-hayes"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673","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=11673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}