{"id":92368,"date":"2025-05-10T02:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T07:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=92368"},"modified":"2021-07-25T07:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T12:57:17","slug":"alexander-g-downing-1361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/alexander-g-downing-1361\/","title":{"rendered":"Downing\u2019s Civil War Diary.\u2014Alexander G. Downing."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><i>Wednesday, 10th<\/i>\u2014Remained in camp all day. General Sherman\u2019s cavalry corps, under Kilpatrick, passed here on their way to Washington City. We are camped in plain view of the city of Richmond, once the capital of the so-called Southern Confederacy, but now desolate, its defenders having fled. It is partly burnt, the rebels having set it on fire before they left.<a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Mikes\/Documents\/Civil War documents from plain text\/#_ftn1_8061\" name=\"_ftnref1_8061\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> The weather is quite cool.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Mikes\/Documents\/Civil War documents from plain text\/#_ftnref1_8061\" name=\"_ftn1_8061\">[1]<\/a> The burning of Richmond by the Confederates seems so uncalled for. It was certainly very short-sighted, since they could not help knowing that their cause was lost.\u2014A. G. D.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, 10th\u2014Remained in camp all day. General Sherman\u2019s cavalry corps, under Kilpatrick, passed here on their way to Washington City. We are camped in plain view of the city of Richmond, once the capital of the so-called Southern Confederacy, but now desolate, its defenders having fled. It is partly burnt, the rebels having set it [&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-92368","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\/92368","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=92368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92368\/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=92368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}