{"id":1070,"date":"2013-08-06T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:14:42","slug":"august-6-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/08\/06\/august-6-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"August 6, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 6<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Well the mail came in last night &amp; nothing from you, so I will finish this &amp; send it out by the morning mail.\u00a0 We are going to draw soft bread today, which will be a very acceptable change.\u00a0 We have got one of the best company grounds that I ever saw, espetially [sic] the Collor [sic] Guard &amp; Head Quarters; it is right on a little knoll with second growth of hard pine, just thin enough to make it a cool &amp; shady place.\u00a0 It is almost too good a place, &amp; we are in hot water all of the time for fear that we shall hear that old bugle sound the call to strike tents.<\/p>\n<p>There is a detail of 100 men from the regt now doing guard &amp; fatigue duty on the Orange &amp; Alexandria R.R.\u00a0 It is the same with all of the regt in this brigade.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Brother, I wish to make a proposition; hereafter I am going to write to you\u00a0 regularly once a fortnight.\u00a0 I want you to do the same by me.\u00a0 I will not write any more now.\u00a0 You see what a blunder I made on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> page, it is something I never [have] done before; and you must excuse it because it was your Brother E. C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/44524\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elisha Coan to his brother [Elisha Coan Collection] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 6th.\u00a0 Well the mail came in last night &amp; nothing from you, so I will finish this &amp; send it out by the morning mail.\u00a0 We are going to draw soft bread today, which will be a very acceptable change.\u00a0 We have got one of the best company grounds that I ever saw, espetially [&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":[9],"tags":[32,124,130,191,239],"class_list":{"0":"post-1070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-elisha-coan-collection","7":"tag-20th-maine-infantry-regiment","8":"tag-elisha-coan","9":"tag-exeter","10":"tag-maine","11":"tag-union","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","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=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}