{"id":1174,"date":"2013-08-11T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T04:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:12:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:12:20","slug":"august-11-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/08\/11\/august-11-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"August 11, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Camp 20th Maine Vols., Beverly Ford Va.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Brother N.<\/p>\n<p>Once more upon the Rappahannock! after <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">much<\/span> marching, considerable fighting and some chasing &#8220;Rebels&#8221; we have got back to, and are now encamped on the banks of the same river that we were on before we started. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/60436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holman Melcher to his brother, Nathaniel Melcher [Holman Melcher Papers] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp 20th Maine Vols., Beverly Ford Va. Dear Brother N. Once more upon the Rappahannock! after much marching, considerable fighting and some chasing &#8220;Rebels&#8221; we have got back to, and are now encamped on the banks of the same river that we were on before we started. [&#8230;] Holman Melcher to his brother, Nathaniel Melcher [&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":[12],"tags":[31,162,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-1174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-holman-melcher-papers","7":"tag-20th-maine","8":"tag-holman-melcher","9":"tag-nathaniel-melcher","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","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=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}