{"id":25685,"date":"2024-03-21T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=25685"},"modified":"2021-07-25T07:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T12:33:12","slug":"alexander-g-downing-945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/alexander-g-downing-945\/","title":{"rendered":"Downing&rsquo;s Civil War Diary.&ndash;Alexander G. Downing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Monday, 21st<\/i>\u2013We reached Cairo at 4 o&#8217;clock this morning and I went ashore with my comrades to the Soldiers&#8217; Home for breakfast. We then went to the provost marshal&#8217;s office for our railroad transportation from Cairo to Davenport. We boarded the train at noon and arrived at Centralia at 5 o&#8217;clock. We had to lie here until after midnight when we took the Illinois Central for La Salle, Illinois. The train was so crowded that in order to get a comfortable place, we bought sleeping berths. The weather is cold here, and we saw snowbanks for the first time in two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, 21st\u2013We reached Cairo at 4 o&#8217;clock this morning and I went ashore with my comrades to the Soldiers&#8217; Home for breakfast. We then went to the provost marshal&#8217;s office for our railroad transportation from Cairo to Davenport. We boarded the train at noon and arrived at Centralia at 5 o&#8217;clock. We had to lie [&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-25685","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\/25685","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=25685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25685\/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=25685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}