{"id":1058,"date":"2013-10-10T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:10:48","slug":"october-10-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/10\/10\/october-10-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"October 10, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temporary Camp, near Culpepper.\u00a0 Extra rations came in during the night, so we have quite a load to carry.\u00a0 Five days\u2019 rations extra, blouse &amp; overcoat.\u00a0 Commenced a letter to Miss Godding, but had written only a page &amp; a half, when the bugle sounded \u201cpack up,\u201d and we were off.\u00a0 Left at half past eleven, and marched about three miles to get one from camp,\u00a0 About two drew up in line of battle.\u00a0 Heard several guns at a distance, but could not tell whether federal or rebel.\u00a0 Had no more fears than when in camp.\u00a0 Pioneers sent out to destroy bridges &amp; obstruct the road.\u00a0 Extemporized camp tonight.\u00a0 Spring-bed.\u00a0 Warm marching, but rained after we halted. Overcast now.\u00a0 Tent with Noble.<\/p>\n<p>Had talk this morning with little secesh girl.\u00a0 Could not tell her age.\u00a0 The family is very poor.\u00a0 Like most we have seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diary of Edwin Emery [Edwin Emery Diaries and Memoir] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temporary Camp, near Culpepper.\u00a0 Extra rations came in during the night, so we have quite a load to carry.\u00a0 Five days\u2019 rations extra, blouse &amp; overcoat.\u00a0 Commenced a letter to Miss Godding, but had written only a page &amp; a half, when the bugle sounded \u201cpack up,\u201d and we were off.\u00a0 Left at half past [&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":[8],"tags":[26,74,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-1058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-edwin-emery-diary","7":"tag-17th-maine-infantry","8":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1861","9":"tag-edwin-emery","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","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=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}