{"id":31719,"date":"2023-12-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=15792"},"modified":"2021-07-17T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T12:30:11","slug":"woolsey-family-during-the-war-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/woolsey-family-during-the-war-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Woolsey Family during the War."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Harriet-Woolsey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68690 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Harriet-Woolsey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Harriet Roosevelt Woolsey to Jane and Georgeanna Woolsey.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">New York, Dec. 2, &#8217;63.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Girls:\u2013Charley&#8217;s rheumatism is better and yesterday he walked without his cane. When he gets on the doe-skins (the triumphs of art that Mother is now at work upon) and his india-rubber knee-cap, I think he will be all right. At any rate, well or not, I suppose it is better for him to go to Washington, for he worries, now that the army is moving and he not with it, and his leave expired. . . . He is pounding away at a new camp-bed he is making. . . . I consider him a fit subject for the hospital, and to be doctored accordingly. . . . Our Church Sewing Society for the army had its first regular meeting yesterday. Abby is treasurer, and Mother, having been put into the president&#8217;s chair, got out again, not liking the conspicuousness, and was immediately pounced upon for the purchasing committee.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eliza-Newton-Woolsey-Howland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66777 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Eliza-Newton-Woolsey-Howland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Eliza Woolsey Howland writes<\/em>:\u2013Charley is doing up all his errands (very fatiguingly) and announces his intention of going back, leg or no leg. . . . We are waiting very anxiously now for every mail and the news from Grant and Burnside\u2013and if Meade is also fighting, as last night&#8217;s Post thinks, it would seem that the great crisis has really come.<\/p>\n<p>I go to cut out army shirts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harriet Roosevelt Woolsey to Jane and Georgeanna Woolsey. New York, Dec. 2, &#8217;63. Dear Girls:\u2013Charley&#8217;s rheumatism is better and yesterday he walked without his cane. When he gets on the doe-skins (the triumphs of art that Mother is now at work upon) and his india-rubber knee-cap, I think he will be all right. At any [&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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-letters-of-a-family-during-the-war-for-the-union"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31719","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=31719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}