{"id":28482,"date":"2024-11-10T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=28482"},"modified":"2021-07-23T16:08:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:08:35","slug":"rebel-war-clerk-1257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rebel-war-clerk-1257\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rebel War Clerk&rsquo;s Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 10th.\u2013Warm; rain and wind (south) all night.<\/p>\n<p>Quiet below. One of the enemy&#8217;s pickets said to one of ours, last night, that Warren&#8217;s corps had voted unanimously for McClellan, and that New York City has given a majority of 40,000 for him. This is hardly reliable.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Foote offered a resolution, yesterday, condemning the President&#8217;s suggestion that <i>editors <\/i>be put in the ranks as well as other classes. Now I think the President&#8217;s suggestion\u2013will be adopted, as Mr. Foote is unfortunate in his resolutions. Mr. Barksdale (President&#8217;s friend) had it easily referred to the Committee on Military Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. J. A. Gilmer, North Carolina, is applying for many passports through the lines for people in his district. He applies to Judge Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>Coal is selling at $90 per load, twenty-five bushels.<\/p>\n<p>The vote referring Foote&#8217;s resolution (on the exemption of editors) was passed unanimously, which is regarded as favoring the President&#8217;s recommendation. Mr. Foote had denounced the President as a despot.<\/p>\n<p>Bought two excellent knit undershirts, to-day, of a woman who gets her supplies from passing soldiers. Being washed, etc., they bore no evidences of having been worn, <i>except two small round holes in the body. <\/i>Such are the straits to which we are reduced.<\/p>\n<p>I paid $15 each; the price for new ones, of inferior quality, is $50 a piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 10th.\u2013Warm; rain and wind (south) all night. Quiet below. One of the enemy&#8217;s pickets said to one of ours, last night, that Warren&#8217;s corps had voted unanimously for McClellan, and that New York City has given a majority of 40,000 for him. This is hardly reliable. Mr. Foote offered a resolution, yesterday, condemning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":88021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-civil-war-day-by-day"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/John-Beauchamp-Jones.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28482","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=28482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}