{"id":1213,"date":"2013-07-16T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T04:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/arch\/civil-war-blog\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:23:27","slug":"july-16-1863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/2013\/07\/16\/july-16-1863\/","title":{"rendered":"July 16, 1863"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orders to be ready to move at 6 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Battery ready.\u00a0 Left camp at 7 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Marched 6 miles to a camp just beyond Darksville.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond papers of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> in camp.\u00a0 Very bad news.\u00a0 Vicksburg gone, Port Hudson rumored to have fallen.\u00a0 Very bad spirit manifested by some of the boys who think times look very blue.\u00a0 I think this should nerve every man to do or die.\u00a0 Heavy cannonading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bowdoin.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diary of A.M. Riddle [Civil War Miscellany] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orders to be ready to move at 6 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Battery ready.\u00a0 Left camp at 7 o\u2019clock.\u00a0 Marched 6 miles to a camp just beyond Darksville. Richmond papers of the 14th in camp.\u00a0 Very bad news.\u00a0 Vicksburg gone, Port Hudson rumored to have fallen.\u00a0 Very bad spirit manifested by some of the boys who think times [&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":[49,114,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-1213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-war-miscellany","7":"tag-a-m-riddle","8":"tag-confederacy","9":"tag-louisiana-guard-artillery","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","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=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/civil-war-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}