{"id":1155,"date":"2013-07-08T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T14:10:15","slug":"july-8-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/07\/08\/july-8-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"July 8, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1156\" src=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-8-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"7-8\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-8-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-8-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/03\/7-8-1024x783.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Tuesday.\u00a0 My valise having given out in some unaccountable way, I proceeded to the lockmaker\u2019s and endeavor to get it mended, but the worthy artisan did not consider himself competent to fix it and I returned with confusion of face to No. 47.<\/p>\n<p>Wright and I were instructed by our friends the recruiting officers to procure passes for the South Ferry and with this object in view, we visited the Adj. General and other officials, but did not succeed in obtaining our papers.\u00a0 At last, however, we reached Maj. Pierce and Capt. Tetlow who expressed a perfect willingness to all us to go.\u00a0 We embarked on board the tug-boat Am,[erican] Union under the protection of Tetlow, Capt. of the College Company, who is a splendid fellow.\u00a0 He is called the first scholar in his class, and ought to be an Alpha Delta.\u00a0 He told me that our Society stood first in College, and the Delta Kappa Epsilon next.\u00a0 The Omega Lambda Chi are hard, the Psi Upsilon digs.\u00a0 He did not tell me why he had not joined any society.\u00a0 Our boys afterward told me that while he always expressed a preference for Alpha Delta Phi he had never concluded to join any Secret Society.<\/p>\n<p>We had a very peaceful trip down the bay.\u00a0 There is some beautiful scenery along the shores but we miss the hills of Maine. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbbcat.net\/record=b3193855~S19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diary of Horatio <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cbbcat.net\/record=b3193855~S19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Fox <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smith [Civil War Miscellany] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday.\u00a0 My valise having given out in some unaccountable way, I proceeded to the lockmaker\u2019s and endeavor to get it mended, but the worthy artisan did not consider himself competent to fix it and I returned with confusion of face to No. 47. Wright and I were instructed by our friends the recruiting officers to [&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":[38,77,150,165,191],"class_list":{"0":"post-1155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war-miscellany","7":"tag-31st-maine-infantry","8":"tag-bowdoin-class-of-1865","9":"tag-gorham","10":"tag-horatio-fox-smith","11":"tag-maine","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","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=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}