{"id":1072,"date":"2013-07-31T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:53:02","slug":"july-31-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/07\/31\/july-31-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"July 31, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1073 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-31-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"7-31\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-31-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-31-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-31-1024x777.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Friday.\u00a0 The last day of my birth month signalized by my final happy admission to the Junior class.\u00a0 I believe I shall indulge in self congratulation after I have brought my record down to that occasion.<\/p>\n<p>But before I relate the manner of my obtaining the ticket I must tell of my grievous disappointment in not getting it at first.\u00a0 I had been in on Tuesday evening\u00a0 before Cross and made up on Trigonometry and Surveying, leaving only three books of Geometry which I endeavored to prevail on him to excuse, promising to make up after I had received my ticket.\u00a0 He assured me that he would do his best, which promise added to Prof. Whittlesey\u2019s left me little doubt on the question and in the evening I devoted myself to the task of sum making in which I distinguished myself.\u00a0 The following are some of my base attempts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why is a fellow smoking a Break of day cigar like a man with the stomach-ache?<\/p>\n<p>Because he has a sick center (6 center).<\/p>\n<p>Why is the same man like a person afflicted with erysipelas in his nose?<\/p>\n<p>For the same reason, having a sick scenter.<\/p>\n<p>What is the State of Massachusetts doing in the highway robbery way[?]<\/p>\n<p>Levying black males\/mails.<\/p>\n<p>And many were as bad.\u00a0 Here are a few elegant verses to Messrs. Cross and Whittlesey.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s to Tutor Cross<\/p>\n<p>Drink him down, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p>For he never shall be boss, &amp;c.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s to Prof. Whittlesesey<\/p>\n<p>Drink him down<\/p>\n<p>And we hope he takes his vittles easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diary of Horatio Fox [Civil War Miscellany] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday.\u00a0 The last day of my birth month signalized by my final happy admission to the Junior class.\u00a0 I believe I shall indulge in self congratulation after I have brought my record down to that occasion. But before I relate the manner of my obtaining the ticket I must tell of my grievous disappointment in [&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":[7],"tags":[37,77,78,150,164,191],"class_list":{"0":"post-1072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war-miscellany","7":"tag-31st-maine","8":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1865","9":"tag-bowdoin-college","10":"tag-gorham","11":"tag-horatio-fox","12":"tag-maine","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","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=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}