{"id":30525,"date":"2023-06-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13769"},"modified":"2021-07-12T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:43:00","slug":"woolsey-family-during-the-war-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/woolsey-family-during-the-war-25\/","title":{"rendered":"A reprieve from a sentence to be shot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&#8230;a copy of this original paper written by Charley June 4th:<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8220;<em>Major General Meade, commanding 5th Corps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>General<\/em>: I have the honor of transmitting to you herewith a copy of a telegram just received from the President respecting sentences of Daily, Magraffe and Harrington.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">(Signed) C. W. W., A. D. C.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<span style=\"font-size: small;\">and Charley had the pleasure of hurrying to Meade&#8217;s headquarters with the <em>reprieve<\/em> of these men from sentence to be shot. These are among the very few papers connected with Charley&#8217;s position at headquarters which are now in our possession, many others having been lost in the Morrell fire.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;a copy of this original paper written by Charley June 4th: &#8220;Major General Meade, commanding 5th Corps. General: I have the honor of transmitting to you herewith a copy of a telegram just received from the President respecting sentences of Daily, Magraffe and Harrington. (Signed) C. W. W., A. D. C.&#8221; \u2013and Charley had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/woolsey_charles_william.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30525","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=30525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}