{"id":14568,"date":"2022-05-17T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2020-02-04T02:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T07:33:22","slug":"rutherford-b-hayes-368","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rutherford-b-hayes-368\/","title":{"rendered":"0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saturday, May 17. <\/em>\u2013 A very hard day, \u2013 muddy, wet, and sultry. Ordered at 3 A. M. to abandon camp and hasten with whole force to General Cox at Princeton. He has had a fight with a greatly superior force under General Marshall. We lost tents, \u2013 we slit and tore them, \u2013 mess furniture, blankets, etc., etc., by this hasty movement. I was ordered with the Twenty-third, Gilmore&#8217;s Cavalry, and two pieces McMullen&#8217;s Battery, to cover the retreat to Princeton. We did it successfully, but oh, what a hard day on the men! I had been up during the night, had the men out, etc., etc. We were all day making it. Found all in confusion; severe fighting against odds and a further retreat deemed necessary. Bivouacked on the ground at Princeton.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mem.<\/em>: \u2013 I saved all my personal baggage, tent included; but no chance to use it at Princeton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, May 17. \u2013 A very hard day, \u2013 muddy, wet, and sultry. Ordered at 3 A. M. to abandon camp and hasten with whole force to General Cox at Princeton. He has had a fight with a greatly superior force under General Marshall. We lost tents, \u2013 we slit and tore them, \u2013 mess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":61496,"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-14568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diary-and-letters-of-rutherford-birchard-hayes"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hays_rutherford_b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568","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=14568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}