{"id":1018,"date":"2013-06-04T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2025-05-16T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:32:47","slug":"june-4-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/06\/04\/june-4-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"June 4, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1019 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/2-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/2-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/2.jpg 1583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Had a quiet night, very little artillery firing, but about the usual amount of musketry.\u00a0 Slept well &amp; turned out at sunrise, Breakfast of bread, &amp; a small ration of boiled pork &amp; beef brought in.\u00a0 Our three days are out this forenoon, but do not know whether we are to be relieved today.\u00a0 Finished up my letter to Pamelia and sent it by the Chaplain, who is going to the landing this morning.\u00a0 He saw Capt. Blodget of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> Maine yesterday.\u00a0 He was well, &amp; sent regards home.\u00a0 The Chaplain has ridden the whole length of our lines, &amp; says there is great activity in mounting guns &amp; mortars, &amp; that there is the utmost confidence felt in regard to the result of the siege.\u00a0 God grant that we may realize our highest expectations &amp; may be spared to see the old flag waving over these rebel works.\u00a0 Lt. R. arrived about noon with Edgar Holbrook, Stevens, Baker &amp; Ramsdell, having come in yesterday.\u00a0 We have now 42 enlisted men present, including Ames, who [illeg. word] back near the cook\u2019s quarters.\u00a0 Wm. Brown, &amp; Small, we left at Baton Rouge, but presume they will soon be able to come up.\u00a0 Little artillery firing today, but preparations appear to be making for some soon.\u00a0 I am to go on picket tomorrow for the first time since we have been here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diary of Isaac Winslow Case [Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a quiet night, very little artillery firing, but about the usual amount of musketry.\u00a0 Slept well &amp; turned out at sunrise, Breakfast of bread, &amp; a small ration of boiled pork &amp; beef brought in.\u00a0 Our three days are out this forenoon, but do not know whether we are to be relieved today.\u00a0 Finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[33,67,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-1018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-misc-manuscript-coll","7":"tag-22nd-maine","8":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1848","9":"tag-capt-isaac-winslow-case","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}