{"id":14929,"date":"2021-07-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2021-07-19T22:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T03:01:14","slug":"john-t-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/john-t-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"John T. Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-family: Californian FB; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #007<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/John-T.-Hughes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"879\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/John-T.-Hughes.jpg 879w, https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/John-T.-Hughes-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/John-T.-Hughes-768x874.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 879px) 100vw, 879px\" \/>\n<p><strong>John T. Hughes<\/strong> (July 25, 1817 \u2014 August 11, 1862) was a colonel in the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He might also have been a brigadier general at the time of his death but documentation of the appointment is lacking.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes returned to Missouri in the summer of 1862 to recruit for the Confederacy. At this time he <em>may<\/em> have been appointed as either an acting Confederate or Missouri State Guard brigadier general. No record of the appointment has been found but he was known as &#8220;general.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He, his recruits, and several other recruiting or partisan bands united to attack the garrison of Independence, Missouri on August 11, 1862, with Hughes in overall command. During this battle (the First Battle of Independence), he was killed instantly by a shot to the head while leading a charge, but the city was captured. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in Independence. He left behind a wife, Mary, and five young sons. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_T._Hughes\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War Era Photographic Portraiture #007 John T. Hughes (July 25, 1817 \u2014 August 11, 1862) was a colonel in the Missouri State Guard and Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He might also have been a brigadier general at the time of his death but documentation of the appointment is lacking. Hughes returned [&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":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portraiture"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929","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=14929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117156,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14929\/revisions\/117156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}