{"id":25520,"date":"2024-01-25T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=25520"},"modified":"2021-07-25T07:30:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T12:30:30","slug":"alexander-g-downing-890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/alexander-g-downing-890\/","title":{"rendered":"Downing&rsquo;s Civil War Diary.&ndash;Alexander G. Downing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Monday, 25th<\/i>\u2013The Eleventh Iowa Regiment was today sworn into the United States service for three years or during the war, and now we are a veteran regiment. Our company had an election of officers, but it did not amount to anything, as it was vetoed by the colonel, and men of his own choice were put into the offices. The role of officers as elected is as follows:<sup><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Mikes\/Documents\/Civil War documents from plain text\/#_ftn1_9568\" name=\"_ftnref1_9568\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Captain \u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.S. S. McLoney<br \/>\nFirst Lieutenant \u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.William Spencer<br \/>\nSecond Lieutenant \u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.Joseph Tomlinson<br \/>\nFirst Sergeant \u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.Lewis Elseffer<br \/>\nSecond Sergeant \u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.David Huff<br \/>\nThird Sergeant \u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.Hiram Frank<br \/>\nFourth Sergeant\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026. John A. White<br \/>\nFifth Sergeant \u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026&#8230;\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026.Alexander G. Downing<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Mikes\/Documents\/Civil War documents from plain text\/#_ftnref1_9568\" name=\"_ftn1_9568\">[1]<\/a> The men had been promised the right to elect their own officers if they re-enlisted.\u2013A. G. D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 25th\u2013The Eleventh Iowa Regiment was today sworn into the United States service for three years or during the war, and now we are a veteran regiment. Our company had an election of officers, but it did not amount to anything, as it was vetoed by the colonel, and men of his own choice were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":90905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-downings-civil-war-diary"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/downing-thumb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25520","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=25520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}